Fumbling Toward Jesus: Finding His Strength in Our Weakness

Admitting our own personal weakness at the feet of Jesus makes us strong in Him. I’m mainly writing this as a reminder to myself today, as I have to remind myself of this often. Weakness is strength. We have to die daily to ourselves to live in Him.

I protest, brothers, by my pride in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die every day!
‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭15:31‬

This is a perpetual activity. We have to do it moment-by-moment, and day-by-day. As we see in today’s verse from 2 Timothy, He gives us the necessary tools of the Spirit to accomplish the tasks for Him. While salvation happens in a moment, our sanctification happens over a lifetime of moments in which we give ourselves to Christ to build up our spiritual strength.

And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.”
Luke 9:23

The first step to growing that strength in our Father is admitting our weakness as sinners who have fallen short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23). He’s got you. He’s got me. Let’s do this. Die daily. Live in Him, for Him, and by Him with every breath and every step.

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control. ‭‭2 Timothy‬ ‭1:7‬

We are equipped with the tools we need to live the life He wants us to live. We have them on-hand—it’s just a matter of using them.

We already have the tools.
We are not equipped for fear and timidity.
Remember that.

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1. Is it difficult for you to admit personal weakness? How do you think this impacts the spiritual areas of your life?

Drop a comment below, and let’s grow together in His grace!

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I am Jessamyn Orchard (@jessamynorchard), and I am a former youth pastor, worship minister, and church lay leader, who graduated from a Christian college. Most recently, however, I’m an addict in recovery who rededicated my life to Jesus about 6 months ago. I was raised in church, and saved at age 12, but I did a lot of straying over the past 10+ years, falling into pits of sin through addictions and self-pity. I’m no authority, just a believer in a big God and called to spread His word through as many conduits as present themselves to me. Fumbling Toward Jesus is a multi-media ministry campaign and includes a written blog of daily devotions on Steemit and an accompanying monthly podcast on Anchor.fm, and it represents years of study—both over the years and lately, and now combined with a whole load of human experience. I’m just a super nerdy sinner saved by a really awesome grace.

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