Grace always, always meets you at your point of pain.
Hi, I’m Joni Eareckson Tada. And I identify so much with the Apostle Paul whose tormenting thorn in the flesh never left him. Now I don’t know what Paul’s thorn was, but often I am just as tormented by my quadriplegia and chronic pain. Paul’s thorn remained and so has my quadriplegia. But here’s what I learn from Paul: for all the many, many times he was distressed by his weakness, he also had the supporting grace of Christ. He kept saying it over and over, “God’s grace is sufficient for me.” And the grace of God is more than adequate precisely because divine power finds its full scope and strength only in human weakness. In other words, it is not simply that weakness is a prerequisite for power; rather, both weakness and power exist simultaneously in Paul’s life. Grace always, always meets us at our point of pain! Thank you, Lord, for my quadriplegia – because in it, I find your grace more than sufficient!
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