Use Our Weakness To
GREATER ADVANTAGE
GREATER ADVANTAGE
St. Paul wants to be powerful, but God uses his weakness to greater
advantage. God uses our weakness too, in the same way!
In today's reading
from the letter to the Corinthians we hear St. Paul say, "I will rather
boast more gladly of my weaknesses, in order that the power of Christ may dwell
with me… When I am weak, then I am strong." Some might mistake this
apparently contradictory statement to mean that in weakness is strength - that
weakness is strength. St. Paul, however, was not coming up with his own version
of a Beatitude - "those who are weak will be strong"! Rather he was
pointing out that despite his human weaknesses and what he has suffered, that
the Lord's power was still working in him as an apostle of Jesus Christ.
In the Responsorial
Psalm we acclaim: Our eyes are fixed on the Lord, pleading for his mercy. We
need to always look to God, and not to the world, for the help and strength we
need. As are eyes are fixed on the Lord, we then can pray that we may
understand His word more fully in our lives. With a tender look of faith and
devotion, of confidence and love----we serve others well. St. Paul wants to be
powerful, but God uses his weakness to greater advantage. God uses our weakness
too, in the same way!
Ask yourself,
today, how does God works through you even with your limitations?