Narrative Lectionary Key Verse for Today
“Therefore I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities for the sake of Christ; for whenever I am weak, then I am strong.”
NL Daily Devotion for Wednesday, August 12, 2020
by R. M. Fergus, Clergy Stuff
Content with insults, hardships and persecutions? I’m having a tough time with this at the moment. I’m going through a major life transition and it’s involved some pretty painful exchanges—insults, certainly, and also hardship. Persecution? Maybe that would be a stretch, but some days it feels like it. The last thing I could say is that I’m content with it all. Offended. Hurt. Defensive. Self-Righteous. Yeah. Those things. Content? Nope.
Yet I have amazing and wonderful people in my life reminding me that God’s got this. When I let go of others and what they think of me, I create a space for God to enter and remind me I am loved, and to give me the strength I need in my weakness. And, honestly, it does work.
What can I let go of in order to invite God to restore and sustain me?
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