The Grace we'll Always Need

Monday Motivation: The Grace we'll always Need

The world seems to run on human capacities. We have potential and abilities with which we have developed the human race to where it is. We are well equipped to survive and thrive within the wonderful and the peculiar conditions of planet earth. The so called coincidences that made these happen, with nothing like it discovered yet anywhere in the universe, is a fundamental grace we received from the Creator, our God.

In personal success, we also depend so largely on our abilities to make things happen. Man was made to make things happen on the earth, equipped to recreate the world. In the process, he achieves personal success and greatness which he may attribute just to his personal prowess.

But man does not just have only strengths. He is also equipped with his limitations and weaknesses even if we often don't want to acknowledge the fact that we are grossly weak.

Our weaknesses are limiting factors to our successes. They either make the journey to accomplishments difficult and torturous or they wait till they destroy what we have achieved as success.

Most weaknesses are seen in little mistakes and misjudgement that have elastic effect on our efforts and achievements. We make choices that we feel are right, only for those choices to turn things around badly. Or we are presented with impossible situations beyond our capabilities, wisdom and sometimes contrary to our convictions and values.
Things that make us weak and helpless. These things are always there. None of us can claim all the strength we'll always need.

Meanwhile, sincerely speaking, not all successes are results of our strength, capacities and wisdom. In fact, some breakthroughs are results of mistakes and errors from our weaknesses, which instead of creating debilitating outcomes, produced wonderful things we didn't envisage.

This tells us that we may not always suffer the results of our weaknesses and inadequacies. This is what I call the grace factor. The God factor.

I believe those weaknesses are essentially positioned to make us see that we are not omnipotent. They aren't put there to limit our influence and ability to succeed really. They are the coded messages and footprints of our Creator, sent to us to know that He is there, that we didn't create ourselves and that we'll always need Him even in small, seemingly insignificant things.

God created us to thrive here. Our weaknesses aren't to stop that. He had equipped us to do just that, but He didn't make us omnipotent. We have serious weaknesses and limitations so that in our successes we won't forget that it isn't all about us, but the permissions given and granted by the One who put us all here.

Many times, we are simply not left to the outcomes of our weaknesses, if we consider how it is easier to stop things from working or to destroy them than to move them forward or to create things. A house built for years can be destroyed in a day, a reputation worked for throughout a lifetime can be destroyed in one day. A business conglomerate can get into trouble and be lost within a few hours. It is easier to destroy than to build.

Yet, we build with obvious weaknesses that can mess up years of work within a very short period... Why? Why didn't our weaknesses bring these successes down? We don't succeed because we don't have flaws and errors, we don't accomplish because we are omnipotent. We do because we have grace from the Omnipotent. His own strength is made perfect in our weaknesses by design, so the credit can't be ours but His.

We don't fail too because we are weak. Multi-talented people too suffer failure, many are never rich, many don't have the outcomes their strengths promised. These things should make us think and to seek God's grace more and more. It seems that factor is major in what makes us who we should essentially become according to original design.

When we remember our weaknesses, let's also remember that we were so created so that we can continuously depend on the Creator for the missing part in order to perfect our successes.

Let's seek His grace, it'll make a whole lot of difference.

Good morning and happy new week!

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