Being a single parent for so many years was hard! It was often lonely. There was often no one to talk things over with. I often felt very weak. Scared. Frustrated. I learned…over time through trial and error to lean hard into God.

I still, even now, have conversations where I tell Him I can’t do something. I am too weak or unskilled for the task. And he lovingly reassures me that the weaker I get, the stronger I become (in Him).

That is not the way we naturally think, is it? God’s ways are most definitely NOT our ways. That’s why we need so much time in Scripture. To get to know the One that we are to lean on for strength in our weakness. In our fears. To learn to sense His true heart about things. It takes time because it is a huge mindset shift.

However, there truly is a type of inner joy when we decide to embrace our problems (our weakness) as a way of trusting God…turning to Him for wisdom trusting that He will give it to us.

Trials and testings miraculously begin to become stepping stones to that closer walk with God that we long for…that we were created for. The storms of life that we dread can even help us realize what needs repair in our lives. We begin to see a change in our priorities. And in our thinking.

Have you experienced that to be true?

When you admit to Him that you are weak and you need His help, do you sense that you are then strong in Christ?