Read: Hebrews 11:30-40

Out of weakness [they] were
made strong. -Hebrews 11:34

A confident, self-assured person once told me, “My
secret for living is simply doing all that I possibly
can – and it works!” Clearly, this individual hadn’t
had the rock-bottom experience that I once had. My
broken life became one big “can’t.” Trying to do “all
that I possibly could” became impossible. My only hope
was to find resources beyond my own.

God began teaching me day-to-day dependence on Him.
Gradually, I experienced the reality of what the author
of Hebrews 11:34 described when he wrote, “out of
weakness [they] were made strong.” Soon, the apostle
Paul’s testimony became mine: “I can do all things
through Christ who strengthens me” (Phil. 4:13).

Dependence on God became my lifestyle. He was
teaching me that He wanted to entrust me with His work
and that He would enable me to do it. As I increasingly
learned to trust Him, several humanly impossible
ministries opened up to me. These challenges reminded
me of the axiom: “It’s easier to do the impossible with
God than the possible without Him.”

Are you feeling weak? If so, begin depending on God
and His Word instead of yourself. As you do, your
weakness will be the making of you, not the breaking of
you.
-Joanie E. Yoder

Blessed thought, “If God be for us.”
Inner power – His grace supplies
Help for every time of weakness,
Understanding all our cries. -Hamilton

TO EXPERIENCE GOD’S STRENGTH,
WE MUST RECOGNIZE OUR WEAKNESS.

OUR DAILY BREAD, Copyright 1999 by Radio Bible Class,
Grand Rapids,Michigan. Used by permission.