"I am glad to boast about my weaknesses so that the power of Christ may work through me" ? II Corinthians 12:9 NLT
When was the last time you told someone about your weaknesses? I mean, truly told them your flaws, your vices, and wanted to tell them not because you wanted them to pity you, but so that you might me an example of growth and change. If you have done this, then kudos to you, because you have been able to overcome what many of us still struggle with. For the rest of us, it is still a daily battle.
In today's society, telling a stranger or even someone close to you about your flaws is like wanting to get hit by a car. Our society says we must always be perfect, to hide our weaknesses and try to be better then the person next to us. I am guilty of this just like the next person. As a people pleaser, I hide my unhappiness and depression so that I didn't appear weak. I spent so much time making other people happy that I didn't have the energy left to even take basic care of myself.
Then G-d lead me to this verse. He told me that these things that I had been hiding to try and make myself strong were really making me weaker then I already was. Instead G-d said to be happy about my weaknesses and share them because by sharing them with others, Christ could work through me, change me, and then change the person who had seen what Christ had done in my life. At first I thought I have so many weaknesses, how could anyone see me as a strong person or a role model for anyone because I thought a role model was someone who had his or her life all together and never had problems. But G-d has shown me otherwise. He wants me to be messy, and have problems because he is able to work his love and miracles through me as a witness to others.
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