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A Prayer for, Once Again, Boasting in Our Weaknesses

     Each time he said, “My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness.” So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ can work through me. 2 Cor. 12:9 (NLT) 

     We ourselves are like fragile clay jars containing this great treasure. This makes it clear that our great power is from God, not from ourselves. 2 Cor. 4:7 (NLT)

     Dear heavenly Father, I wish I didn’t have to keep learning this same lesson, over and over and over: Your grace is all I need and Christ’s power is released through my weakness. This way of life is so counterintuitive and paradoxical, and, at the same time, so wondrously glorious and freeing.

     O to be done with the foolish quest for competency and control, self-sufficiency and self-anything. I know that Day is coming, but well before the second coming of Jesus, Father free me to boast in, not bemoan about, my weaknesses. Father, grant me grace to accept my limitations and quirks, my body pains and heart wounds.

     Free me to be more excited with being a fragile jar of clay, releasing the aroma of grace, as opposed to be a swaggering vessel of togetherness, dispensing impressive insights. Free me from comparing myself to anybody, by intensifying my awe of the beauty and magnificence of Jesus. May Jesus increasingly become my treasure; the gospel my delight; and grace my sufficiency.

     For this one day, Father, I trust you for the freedom to be invisible and irrelevant, and given over to the needs of my neighbors and strangers. Thank you for your endless patience, inexhaustible forbearance, and your great delight in us, your children. May your love be the most compelling and transforming influence in my life today. So very Amen I pray, in Jesus’ merciful and mighty name.

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