My power is make perfect in weakness.

Here is a poem that rests upon that profound and comforting paradox of divine strength.

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Perfect Power

I beg for strength, for might to stand alone, To bear this weight of flesh and blood and bone. I show You where I am so strong and sure, And ask You make my resolution pure.

But You, instead, point to the fractured place, The quiet weakness,the tears upon my face. You do not rush to shore the crumbling wall, But let the weakness stand,and let it fall.

And in the ruins of my own design, A different,deeper power starts to shine. Not mine at all,but Yours—a boundless stream, Flowing through the fabric of a broken dream.

"My grace is sufficient," is what You say, "My power is perfected in weakness today." The less of me,the more there is of You, Your strength is proven in what I cannot do.

So I will boast now in my injury, In all the things that highlight need of Thee. For when I am made weak,then I am strong, Carried by Your grace my whole life long.

For Christ’s own power pitches its bright tent Upon a soul that is in weakness bent. So let Your perfect power rest on me, In every frailty,all the world may see Not my great courage,but Your victory.

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The Scripture at the Heart (2 Corinthians 12:9-10)

This poem is built upon the Apostle Paul's testimony of a "thorn in his flesh" and the revolutionary answer he received from God:

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)

This is the great paradox of the Gospel: human weakness is not an obstacle to God's plan; it is the chosen venue for His power. Our insufficiency creates the space for His all-sufficiency to be displayed. The poem explores the journey from resisting weakness to embracing it as the very place where we encounter the perfect strength of Christ.