2 Samuel 22:33 God is my strength and
power, makes my way perfect
This scripture from 2 Samuel was
extremely helpful to me when I had epilepsy and was fighting my stress
seizures. It reminded me that God was my strength and power. I didn’t need my
own to see me through. I had God. I was like a battery operated toy that when
the batteries ran low I was no longer able to function. Thanks to God I didn’t
need to get to that point as I so often did.
The way God was making my way perfect
was the fact that He was there for me. I was still having seizures, I was still
disabled. What was so perfect about that? Nothing! Except the fact that through
my epilepsy I was learning to lean on God for my day to day ability to function
as I made Him my perfect choice.
Sounds wimpy, doesn’t it? That’s our problem today we have
it in our heads that if we have to rely on God to be our crutch, backbone,
strength, or power then we must be some kind of wimpy weak weirdo. From the
beginning of time starting with Adam and Eve in the garden we think we can do
it on our own. There is pride in showing the world that we can make it on our
own. We don’t need God. I’m not some kind of windup battery operated toy that
needs power from a different source!
Can you hear it? More important is the fact you can see it.
You can see what that kind of attitude does for us in the behavior of our
society today. We have moved away from our true source of strength and power
and it hasn’t proven a thing. When I did it I had more stress seizures, when
others do it their “stress seizures” are the anger they display, the bad choices they are making, and their destructive attitude they carry with them that hurts
rather than heals.
Perfect ways? What’s that! In reality there is no perfect
way. Our idea of a perfect way is one that is pain free, loaded with free money
to spend, everything we ever asked for or wanted without doing anything to get
it. Indeed a life free of stress, worries and other people sticking their nose
in our business. Nice try but have you ever seen such a thing? No.
The perfect way God has to offer is one paved with not only His
power and strength leading to eternal life with Him but His love, mercy and
grace as well. Yes there will be pain and suffering along the way, stressful
times and hard lessons to be learned but that’s okay when you’re traveling with
Jesus. The flawless way, the perfect choice.
© 2013 Karen J. Gillett @
Pencil Marks and Recipes Publishing
