Anecdotes From a Faithful Wuss

I am a wuss. I haven't used that word since middle school, but if I'm honest, I'm a wuss. And that's okay. 

I'm in the middle of an impossible task... well almost. 

It's a difficult task, and it's requiring me to trust God whole-heartedly to provide, and it's forcing me to be brave in many ways. 

But all I keep seeing is just how much of a wuss or cowardly person I really am. 

Long gone are the days when I thought I was brave because I went away to college or for starting a blog or for sharing my thoughts on the interwebs. 

I have my moments, but when push comes to shove, I'm more prone to cower in fear than move forward in faith. 

But that's okay. 

I don't have to be brave all of the time. I don't have to be strong all the time. I am free to fail. I am free to be weak. 

Even when I am a wuss and I choose to act out of fear instead of faith, God will still be glorified. He doesn't need me to be strong in order to be glorified. In fact, His power is made perfect in my weakness, in my "wussiness". 

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 of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong. 
{2 Corinthians 12: 9-10}

How refreshing. It's like a tall glass of water on a humid summer day. 

Paul the Apostle. THE Paul. THE man that wrote half of the New Testament had his own weaknesses. He was human. 

But he could boast in his weaknesses because of the glory of God. When I am weak, then I am strong. 

I'm free to be weak, because when I am weak, the power of Christ rests upon me, which makes me strong. 

I can then be content in hardships and suffering and those little moments when I want to cower in fear. 

If God's grace is sufficient for Paul, it's sufficient for me, and it's sufficient for you. 

His power is made perfect in our weakness. 

He can use our weaknesses, but He can also use them to make us strong. 

I don't know about you, but that encourages me in the moments when I feel like a wuss or fearful or weak. 

I don't have to be strong all the time, but I can trust that God's using my weaknesses to glorify Himself and to make me stronger.