Mikey V.D.’s Blog

Break me Lord Jesus

Let me follow You alone

Hold me captive so You receive the glory

May You alone be seen in my suffering

In my brokeness may You alone be glorified

Take this pain away from me.

Have those words ever been uttered from your mouth? They have been uttered from my mouth. Sometimes I have felt like I didn’t have enough faith or that I wasn’t good enough for God to fix the problem. Have you ever felt like this?

In these times it is so hard to think anything else. I think wow my faith is weak and I need to try harder. However I know that is not the truth… don’t I?

This week I read what Paul had to say “Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 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.”1 It took me back a little when I read it. We can plead with God “please take away this brokenness.” Sometimes he will answer with yes. On the other hand sometimes Jesus will say, my grace is sufficient, I am made powerful when you are weak. It is so true that Jesus uses broken people to do his work, to be his followers. Isn’t that amazing? His grace is all that I need. That sometimes is hard to realize that all I need is His grace. Nothing more, all I need to satisfy me is Jesus’ grace. At the end of that verse Paul says, “For when I am weak, then I am strong.”2 That is so true in my life. I would guess that if you looked at your life that is true also. So I ask.

Is Jesus’ grace sufficient for you?

1. 2 Corinthians 12:8-9

2. 2 Corinthians 12:10