Your Weakness, An Illusion

Your weakness could be an illusion. It all depends upon what level you are at. If you are a bodybuilder, developing great strength, and you struggle to lift some herculean bar off of its starting point, you might consider this to be a demeaning failure. But your starting point is already at a level of strength a mere child could only dream of. In the same way, if you are training and decide to bear the burden of attaching ankle weights to your person at all times, you may begin to feel weary and a thought may develop. I am weak, you could say to yourself if you had forgotten that you were in the midst of your training. What if this same training were occurring in a spiritual manner and you didn't even recognize it? God has allowed a certain amount of pressure to be placed upon you for a very specific reason, for the benefit of yourself, others, and His kingdom. You forget that the spiritual forces are being pushed back by your faith and the arduous journey you have taken in the inner sanctum, the battleground in your heart and mind has taken its toll. Take those pressures off for just one moment and you'd see something so clear: You have grown by leaps and bounds. You are far more akin to some gladiator in strength than the weakling identity those enemies would attach to you. You're simply on another level and if you went back down the ladder, you'd see that what you once thought so difficult to stand up against, you now do with ease. The problem isn't your strength, it's your vision. It's how you see yourself on the grander scale. Which God surely perceived with crystal clarity. You should not hang your head down, saying woe is me, I have made little progress and my weakness is all I have. No, the feeling of weakness is only a sign of just how strong you are becoming. Those muscles have torn and stretched into something that can carry your family line farther than you ever thought possible. You are a tree planted deeply in the ground. Your strength in God will provide a shield and a covering for generations. Believe that when you feel the most weak. When you are weak, God's strength is shining through you. He is not careless with the challenges you face. But rather, He is crafting a beautiful mosaic of the moments in your life. Lift your head and remember just how strong you've become in the trial, the chaos and tell that soul of yours you certainly can keep going on. You are God's warrior.