“The weakness of God is stronger than our strength”

“To those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength. I Corinthians 1:24-25 NIV

Verse Reflections:  Yes!  I love that on my strongest day I have not touched God’s weakest day.  I am a pretty strong woman on my best days.  I can run a multi-million dollar company, cook dinners for friends going through a tough time, run four to six miles, lift weights, clean house and still have energy left over.  Of course, those are my strongest days so don’t get intimidated if you are reading this.  What we should both get out of this is that day doesn’t even touch God’s abilities on His weakest days.  This thought is so freeing, especially on the days where all I have the energy to do is change channels.  God has the wisdom we need.  He has the power we need.  We don’t have to have it all.  If our child is going through a tough time, we just ended a relationship, someone in our life is fighting an addiction, we have a physical illness or someone we love is fighting an illness, our reputation has been threatened… we can know that “the weakness of God is stronger than our strength”.  We can be weak and call on God’s strength to get us through.  We can not know what to do next and call upon God’s wisdom.  I have learned that neither prayer may change our circumstances but it will get us through the day and the next and the next.  Then one day, we will look around and know that we climbed a mountain, the view at the top is beautiful and we are in the best shape of our lives from the climb.  This takes a lot of pressure off of our day today.  We don’t have to be perfect, life doesn’t have to be perfect for us to begin making healthy choices.  We don’t need to wait on our day to get better for us to start (or continue) this journey.  Too often, I have postponed making the right eating choices because I was having a bad day, week, month or year.  God’s weakness is stronger than our greatest strength.  We can choose God foods today.  We can change our life today, no matter what happens.

 

Prayer:  Father, give me Your strength on my weakest days.  Give me Your strength on my strongest days.  I am weak every day when it comes to eating.  I need You to transform this part of my life. I love that this verse reminds me that no matter what is happening to me You have the strength and the wisdom that I need.  Lord, You have given me the beautiful message that we need to eat Your foods and yet relax and allow ourselves one extra opportunity to indulge each day.  You provided this wisdom.  Continue to weave this wisdom, this message into the cells of my body.  I know this wisdom is critical.  It gives me the focus on God foods for the major choices of my day and yet the freedom, without criticism, to have a little bread or a desert.  Thank You.  This allows me to not chastise myself if I have a little of the “unhealthy” foods. This wisdom is crucial to heal me from my crazy way of hyper-analyzing any and all foods that I eat.  Give me the strength You promise me to make the right choices and to say no to temptations.  I love that You are stronger and wiser than any human I know.  I am excited to be reminded that You have it all together.  Thank You for imparting to me Your strength and Your wisdom.  Give me both as I choose Your foods and health today and every day.