God Promises His Strength

“Fear not, for I am with you, be not dismayed, for I am your God, I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand” -Isaiah 41:10

Every day I wake up reminded of my weakness. No human being had ever liv d a perfect day. But there is goodness in God’s promise. God promises His strength when we are weak, and I believe we can live in the real, meaningful, and powerful strength of God.

God in His infinite wisdom and love chose to create mankind full well that we would choose our ways over His. We’re made with the terrible capacity to live out of our own strength.

As a result we see both in scripture and our lives incredible failures example of our weakness played out before our own eyes. We see the declining mortality in society. We see it in people’s lives that can’t seem to get it together. Weakness seems to be threaded into the fabric of our world.

But scripture also contains incredible accounts of the victories of God’s people. Like Moses and the Egyptians, David and Goliath, Solomon and the Philistines, and the early church spreading the gospel across the world despite insurmountable odds. And along the way all the accounts of victory. But there is also many accounts of failure. So, what made the difference? What separates the accounts of success from the failures? The difference is the people of God who allowed God to be their strength. Success came solely when God was made strong in man’s weakness.

Psalm 103:13-14 says, “As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear Him. For He knows our frame, He remembers that we are dust.” Remember, fear of the Lord is an attitude of awe, reverence, and respect towards Him.

God created us and knows our weakness. He knows apart from Him we can do nothing. And because of what Jesus chose to do on the cross we are no longer apart from Him.

We must choose God’s way over our own if we are to succeed in this life and eternity with Him.