Being humans, do we have any rights to boast about our
strengths? In our nature, we love to boast because we want other people to look
up to us and get praises from them, but do we have any rights to do this? The
truth is, we don’t. And for us believers of Christ, we must always take note of
this.
As believers of Christ, we must always know that we only
succeed by the grace of God. All of our strength came from it, and I personally
believe that we have no rights to boast above anything, knowing that the
strength we use for succeeding didn’t come from us. Also, being believers of
Christ, we must not live by the flesh, for it’s very common to a man who lives
by his flesh to be boastful about himself. But we must live by spirit instead,
for in the spirit, we would know the will of God. And it is God’s will for us
to not be boastful about our strength.
But even though we have no rights to boast about our
strength, we must know that there is still this one thing that God allows us to
boast about.
What is this one
thing that God wants us to boast about?
But 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, NIV
Like what Paul said in the verse above, we can boast about
our weakness. Why should boast about our weakness? Because it is where the real
strength comes from! If we are broken enough every time we do anything, accepting
with all our heart that we are nothing and we can do nothing without the help
of God, then that’s the time where God’s grace will move into us. And this
grace that moves into us becomes our own strength that will help us to overcome
in every obstacle in our lives! This power that God has granted to us through His
grace is the only thing we could ever boast about, and in this, I believe.
That is
why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in
persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
-2 Corinthians 12:10, NIV
So with this, we must rejoice every time, whether when we
are strong or weak, for by God’s grace, we are made overcomers. This grace that
has been granted is something that we should rejoice for, for without it, we
are nothing.
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