Turn Weakness into Strength

You know the saying, “Your best asset gone unchecked can be your worst enemy”.  But what about reversing it? Something to the effect, “Your worst trait once embraced can be your best asset”?

How often do we spend our energy repressing those tendencies that seem to land us in a place of failure?  What if we took an offensive approach instead? Acknowledging those tendencies that cause us to sabotage our destiny and turning them into the strengths God intended them to be?

The Word says, “In our weakness, God is made strong”.  Have we missed the key to this scripture?  I’ve always confessed this during my weakest times.  Those seasons when I’m dealing with burnout.  Never really grasping how God can be strong when I’m so useless to Him at that time.

It’s time to stop working so diligently to subdue our weaknesses.  Don’t stop short and simply attack them in their counterfeit manifestation.  Develop them into strengths that glorify God Almighty.

We’ve been working on a character trait within our daughter for the past few months.  She is such a strong little person and this strength in it’s immaturity shows up as stubbornness.  We are coaching her to use it at it’s fullest and in a way that honors and glorifies God.  We’re not there yet but making progress.  Today we had to have an adjustment conversation.  After it was over she was torn between “cooking” with her mama and “stewing” over her correction.  She doesn’t like to interact right away after one of these sessions but she is learning to not let her strong will prevent her from making the best choices.  She took the time to meet me half way.  She did cook with me and I let her own her strength.  She prefaced this event with a letter prior to joining me…

~ by Jen Chappell on July 13, 2008.