My family and I recently joined a gym. As everyone does when they join a gym, I had the high hopes that in no time at all, I would look and feel fantastic. My plan for working out 3 times a week ended up being more like 1 time a week or none at all. After several months of this, my muscles had not grown at all because I had not exercised them enough.
The same can be true for our faith in God. Have you ever noticed that you feel closest to God and more in touch with Him when things are going badly in your life? It just seems that when we're at our lowest point (or weakest point), that we will finally depend on God and place our faith in Him. When things are going great, we tend to depend too much on ourselves.
Like our muscles, our faith in God only grows when it is exercised. If you are like me, problems and trials are not welcomed guests in your life. But, perhaps, if we take a different attitude towards them, we can use them to our advantage. Knowing these weak times in our lives bring opportunities to strengthen our faith and bring us closer to God through a stronger trust in Him, can make all the difference in the way we face life's problems. I believe that is what is meant by the verse in 2 Corinthian 12:10 which says: "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."
That is the theme for this year's Christ Over Cancer Day of Hope Event set for Nov 4th at 4pm at Woodlawn Church of Christ in Florence, AL. We hope to carry the message that God gives strength to the weak to all cancer survivors and their families. Please make plans to be with us on this awesome day of encouragement.
God Bless!
