When We're Weakest

Hello, friends!

Anna here. In light of the insanity still happening in our world, I wanted to encourage you all with a few thoughts that have been on my heart lately.

Recently, the words of Psalm 16 have been in my mind. They’ve encouraged me greatly and given me a lot of peace amidst the current chaos that makes up our world.

I specifically love verses 1 and 2:

“Keep me safe, O God, for in you I take refuge. I said to the Lord, ‘You are my Lord; apart from You I have no good thing.” (Psalm 16:1-2)

God is our refuge- our shelter; our safe place. This is true in seasons of peace, when hope and rejoicing come easily. It’s true in the seasons when everything seems to be going well; the seasons where we might feel self-reliant and potentially forget that God is our one refuge and source of strength.

It’s also true in the harder seasons of our lives. Even if we’re “stuck”, waiting, longing, and wondering in the middle of a storm, God is our refuge.

Our shelter.

Our safe place.

If you feel lost or hopeless in this season, you have the opportunity to lean into Jesus and become stronger than you’ve ever been before.

There’s a great reminder of this in 2 Corinthians:

“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. 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 12:9-10)

Your despair can be turned into your greatest hope, because when you’re forced to realize that you can’t rely on yourself, you can instead rely on God. He provides us with powerful, unshakable hope and all-sufficient strength… hope and strength that come directly from Him, who is all-powerful.

You are at your strongest when your strength comes not from you, but from God.

Your weakest becomes your strongest.

This is a season of weakness for many of us- most of us are struggling with some form of anxiety, doubt, anger, fear, etc. But when we choose to use our weaknesses as a reminder to turn back to God, we can turn this season into a season of learning to rely on God more and more, leaning into our faith, and digging deeper in our relationship with Him.

When God is on your side, nothing can stand against you. When we set the Lord before us, turn to Him, rely on Him and hope in Him, we are secure. We have unshakable hope.

As verse 11 of Psalm 16 tells us, God makes known to us the path of life.

He fills us with joy in His presence.

Eternal pleasures are at His right hand.

This is a hard season for all of us, but stay strong, friends.

With God on our side, we will not be shaken.

Happy Friday!

-Anna