Eze 16:30-34 Truly your will is weak, says the Lord God. My will is weak. My flesh is weak. My spirit is willing. As I called out to the Lord I began to put on Christ, Jesus. I can’t live this Christian walk – it’s impossible. I must put on, live in, soak in, walk in, move in and enter into the Spirit of God. I took some time to look at God this morning. As I did I became weaker. I became putty in his hands. I came to him with absolutely nothing to offer to him except my willing heart. He used that to work through me and build me up. The people in these verses didn’t do that. They built other places of intimacy. They fell in love with giving their bodies over to others that they even paid their customers. I am tempted when I’m weak to give up and call myself “worthless”. I’m tempted to get my “needs” met by other means. But I’ve learned like David to go into the arms of a gracious God, to enter into God’s intimacy. When I am weak he is strong. It’s not about me, it’s about what he does through me.
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Very true. When I’ve been at my lowest, my neediest, when I’ve felt absolutely alone…those are the times I have grown with God the most.
Except unlike the young man on his knees in reverent awe, I have snot pouring out my nose, eyes bloodshot and puffy, rocking back and forth while I make unhuman sounds into a wad of kleenex.