Passing Through

First post in a long, long time. As a high school student involved in about every extra-curricular activity you can imagine, I have been quite busy. In fact, while I am writing this I should be doing homework. Theology homework isn't so bad though.

I have come to a point in my life where I feel like I am on a treadmill.  I see where I am going (that would be fixing my eyes on Jesus) but, it feels like I am just walking in place. I am praying, reading, striving, and trusting in His grace and strength, yet it seems like I am going nowhere, or at least I think I'm not. Its funny how after a spiritually dry time you can look back and see that God was still working, kind of like the stage crew for a show. (The only exception is that God is working behind the stage AND He is the main show).

Anyway, I know that God is still here with me, and that even when I am at my weakest, when I feel the most spiritually deprived, He is holding me in the quiet terror of His unimaginable strength (terror in a good way). A friend of mine texted me a couple of verses that just spoke to me, and they were 2 Corinthians 12:9-10:

⁹ But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. ¹⁰ That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

As Christians, our strength comes directly from God. And surprisingly we, the weak vessels of the world, are the chosen carriers of His strength, which abounds through our weaknesses. Passing through in faith is a hard thing, especially when we feel like we are not growing closer to God. But we are promised that His strength will be with us, especially when we are weak.