Your Grace is Enough

Today's reading and thoughts:

2 Corinthians 12:7-10

^"7To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. ⁸Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. ⁹But 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. ¹⁰That 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."

Paul prays for healing from the 'thorn in his side' three times, yet doesn't receive it. Although he doesn't receive healing, he does receive grace, strength, character, humility, and an ability to empathize with others who may also be experiencing pain or disability.

God has a plan. A sovereign plan. And sometimes we don't understand why that plan doesn't include healing for us or our loved ones. But we still must pray, believe and trust.

Paul is proof that even Godly people are not immune. We must pray for healing by trusting our bodies to God's care. Nothing separates us from his love. Our spiritual condition is always more inprotant that our physical condition. God's power is displayed sometimes through weakness. "For when I am weak, then I am strong."