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A Prayer About Not Despising Weakness

A Prayer About Not Despising Weakness
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 about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 2 Corinthians 12:9
Heavenly Father, I need some of your variegated sufficient grace today-just like every day. Not only do I need your grace to enable me to own and boast in my weaknesses, I need your grace so that I will stop despising weaknesses in others. By the gentle but sure convicting work of your Spirit, I can see how lately I’ve become a bit irritated, impatient, and impolite towards brokenness in other people, and this attitude is simply unacceptable.
Though I’d love to justify myself, there is no such justification. I’m a selfish man who would love everything and everyone to make my life as tolerable, predictable and manageable as possible. I assume the right to green lights at every intersection. I assume there will be an open cash register when I’m ready to check out. I assume the fish will be biting. What is worse, there are times when I don’t want people to fear the stuff they should fear, struggle with the same things I struggle with, or simply be the normal sinners that we all are. God have mercy on me, the sinner…
Dear Abba, Father, I am so thankful that your love for me is steadfast, and that I can count on new mercies every morning, including this morning… and all day long. I not only grieve my attitude, right now, by faith, I repent and abandon myself to the resources of the gospel.
Lord Jesus, I want… I need your power to rest on me and to settle my restless heart. I’ll not pray about next week, or even tomorrow. Just give me the manna of gospel-kindness for this one day. Help me to respond gently and not react rigidly to the weaknesses of others; help me to roll up my sleeves and not roll my eyes when I meet brokenness in others; help me to love as you love me, for that is the bottom line and the top priority. So very Amen, I pray, in Jesus’ name.

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