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Perfection in Weakness
“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me” (Philippians 4:13, KJV).
In Christ Jesus, the believer finds strength for all things. Christ is between him and all weakness; and he can say, I can do all things in Christ who strengtheneth me.
When Paul confronted the thorn in the flesh and besought the Lord thrice that it might depart from him, he learned that great lesson that His grace was sufficient for him; His strength is made perfect in weakness – notice, “made perfect”, not only made manifest.
Had God said to him, "I will reveal my strength in your infirmity;" it would have been a great assurance; but, far better than this, only in the weakness of man can God display the perfection of His strength.
The weaker we are and feel ourselves to be, the stronger He can prove himself to be; so that only when we become perfectly hopeless and helpless in ourselves and absolutely abandon ourselves to Him, can He fully and perfectly glorify His own grace. Omnipotence needs impotence for its sphere of working. (Arthur J. Pierson).