There is a big difference between God strength, and our strength. We will never make it by depending on our strengthalone. God is the one who will stand with us and strengthen us in our journey through life.
Friends and family may forsake us, and others may forsake us, but when we know where our true strength lies it’s then we know everything will be alright.
We must depend on God’s strength because our human strength runs out too quickly. Human strength relies on earth, food, sleep, exercise, water, and sunshine. But, these things are not enough to make us strong in the Lord.
We must have and use the divine strength of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and that is never in short supply.
“Not by might, nor by power, but by My spirit, says the Lord of hosts” –Zachariah 4:6
When we depend on God strength, it strengthens our whole person, soul, mind and body.
Paul wrote in 2 Timothy 4:16-17,
“At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them. But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the gentiles might hear, and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.”
Paul knew that God had called him to teach the gospel to the gentiles, and we must also know what God has called us to do in the world. It is then that God will stand with us and strength us, no matter what comes our way.
Paul would have never made it without depending on God’s strength because he endured many trials and persecutions than any other apostle. He took pleasure in his infirmities, reproaches, necessities, persecutions, and distresses for Jesus’s sake.
“For when I am weak, then I am strong” -2 Corinthians 12:10.
The Bible says,
“Let the weak say, I am strong” -Joel 3:10
This verse refers to being strong in the Lord, and when we are, we are strong in divine love, grace and peace. There is no ego in those things. When the right hand of God is moving for us, we have nothing to fear.
I am not strong as a person, but I am “God strong,” and Grace strong. I would not be who I am today, had it not been for God giving me His strength and His grace.
We are strong in God through His grace, we must depend on that sufficient grace. The Lord told Paul,
“My grace is sufficient for you. for My power is made perfect in weakness” -2 Corinthians 12:9.
When we are weakin our human strength, the strength of God will show up in us through His power. His love and His greatness.
Our flesh is too weak to perform spiritual things or fight the power of Satan. That’s why Paul said,
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh” -2 Corinthians 10:3
Through divine strength, we are able to pull down the powers of satan and stomp them under our feet.
Paul was an educated man before he was saved, he held one of the highest seats in the court of the Jews. He depended on his education, his position, and his authority and had confidence in his own strength.
After he was saved, Paul realized how weak his flesh really was, and he no longer had faith in it. He became circumcised in his heart and worshipped God in the spirit, and rejoiced in Jesus. (Philippians 3:3).
It is miraculous how God can take sinners like us and make us His children for the most High King.
Our flesh is weak but the Holy Spirit that comes to live on the inside of us is strong.
People with a lot of “higher” education can become so caught up in what they know that they can leave God out. This is why God takes people who are considered simple in the eyes of the world and makes them magnificent witnesses. No one needs to be highly educated to be able to understand God’s good news. It only takes a consecrated, dedicated, Holy Spirit-filled person to understand it.
When people are redeemed by God from all their sins in their souls they become perfect. James 1:5 says,
“If any on you lack wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given to him.”
God is willing to give us His wisdom, but we must be willing to give Him all the glory for it.
From Pity to Praise 