Google Gadgets

I discovered Google gadgets recently and I love it. I love how there are gadgets that will tell you randomly chosen Bible verses that can encourage you tremendously. like this one:

2 Corinthians 12:9-10 "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."

But something about this verse struck me for I am always feeling weak, weary, feeling academic hardships and difficulties, but then I don't feel strong. Aren't I supposed to feel strength starting to flow through my very veins, and from there throughout the rest of my body? I am supposed to feel strong. No?

And then I realized that I always do something with scripture, that I stumbled upon doing again. I overlook important words. THIS IS WHY WE MUST ASK FOR A CONSTANT FILLING OF THE SPIRIT, ESPECIALLY AS WE READ THE WORD OF GOD.

This word DELIGHT.I'm supposed to delight (def: take great pleasure in) weakness, insults, hardships, persecutions, difficulties... Boy, I don't know whether I take great pleasure in sucking at school or not... (this is where revelation hits me at 2:35am)

But God, BUT GOD, has plans for me regardless. Plans that are good, plans that are to prosper me and not to harm me, SO I WILL DELIGHT in Him and in my weaknesses, because it is not even my strengths that will take me places or great grades or degrees. But it is God alone who will take me places. This is what it means to DELIGHT in my weakness, that even in my weakness I will delight in it and suffer through it in order for God to be glorified.

When the disciples in Acts got flogged and persecuted, they didn't give in to the floggings or just lay there DEAD or acting dead, but they REJOICED because they got to suffer for the Lord. I want to rejoice(thes: be delighted) in these things that try to bring me down by all means, because it is in and through HIM, I do all things.

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Happy 7 Months Beautiful!