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Sword of The Word - Weakness & Strength

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Sword of The Word - Weakness & Strength

POSTED BY: Just Jim | COMMENTS: 0 Comments | DATE: November 09, 2014

Comentary:

Ever been in the position to win a fist fight and just couldn't do it? Ever been in the position to win a legal battle and let yourself lose? Ever walked away from a fight only to wake up on the ground? Weakness is not always for the weak. At times it takes a lot of courage to be weak. Ever knew exactly what to say to drive your point home and just let it go instead? We have a natural aversion to doing these things. But, I guess that is the point we are to put away the natural aversions and take up our crosses, trees, or stakes, whatever you prefer. I don't know about you but I find it hard to let someone spit in my face. And yet I have had it done without getting retribution. First because of the gag reflex that comes from being totally grossed out...but later because it’s not worth perpetuating. I find that the closer I get to God the weepier with joy I become ... Is that weakness? I dont know for sure but I know it cleans me out when I do, and makes the spirit within me feel good, hapy and full of joy that I want to spread to others. Then I get real tired and need some sleep. But, I think being weak is a way of being submissive to the will of God. A lot of people tell me that I ought to be willing to kill someone who is out to kill me (as in war). But, I truly believe that if my faith is strong enough I will never have to spill the blood of a brother or sister. If that person wants to kill me I will let God either fight them for me or take me home. I don't ever see me killing anyone for any reason. I guess that is weakness or cowardess Im not sure. I guess I am just a dumb old hippie at heart... I just want to love and be loved... Have a great weekend everyone and try to stay soft hearted... watch an emotional movie and let yourself cry ... I recommend "The Letter Writer" .. :)

Supporting Scriptures:

2 Corinthians 12:10

10 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.

Hebrews 12:11

11 No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.

2 Corinthians 12:9

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 of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

1 Corinthians 4:15

For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

Romans 16:18

For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.

Philippians 3:9

And be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—

2 Corinthians 3:3

And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

Acts 16:20

And when they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, “These men are Jews, and they are disturbing our city.

John 15:19

If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

1 Corinthians 2:14

The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

John 8:15

You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.

Luke 10:22

All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”

Psalm 2:1-12

1 Why do the nations conspirea and the peoples plotw in vain? 2 The kingsx of the earth rise up and the rulers band together against the Lord and against his anointed,y saying, 3 “Let us break their chainsz and throw off their shackles.”a 4 The One enthronedb in heaven laughs;c the Lord scoffs at them. 5 He rebukes them in his angerd and terrifies them in his wrath,e saying, 6 “I have installed my kingf on Zion,g my holy mountain.h” 7 I will proclaim the Lord’s decree: He said to me, “You are my son;i today I have become your father.j 8 Ask me, and I will make the nationsk your inheritance,l the ends of the earthm your possession. 9 You will break them with a rod of ironb;n you will dash them to pieceso like pottery.p” 10 Therefore, you kings, be wise;q be warned, you rulersr of the earth. 11 Serve the Lord with fears and celebrate his rulet with trembling.u 12 Kiss his son,v or he will be angry and your way will lead to your destruction, for his wrathw can flare up in a moment. Blessedx are all who take refugey in him.

Galatians 4:5