Light in the Learning

I ran across this scripture today …

“But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”

Last year when I started back teaching, my number one goal was to provide grace to my students and to those who I worked with. I wanted to exemplify Jesus in my work, and help people remember Him or maybe come to know Him for the first time. I wanted to point them towards Him through my words, actions, and demeanor.

What I have found is that the longer I am in the profession of working with children and adults alike is that I’m most definitely not Jesus. Who would’ve thought?! My grace runs short according to others weaknesses as well as my own. So much for being like Jesus. Or at least that’s what I thought.

Then I was reminded of this scripture, His grace is sufficient. Point blank. Period.

He is enough so I don’t have to be.

He knows my weakness.

He is not surprised when my grace runs short.

He simply asks for me to remember who is enough.

Because when I do that’s when His Power is made perfect.

Ahhh, that word. The word all of us people pleasers swoon over. PERFECT.

The word we can never achieve alone, but can have with His help. Perfection in His Power, in His Will, and His way. It might not look like what we want, but we can rest assured that He knows best.

I get it wrong more than I get it right, but I know as long as I have Him on my side, my work is not done in vain. It’s important, it’s needed, and it’s working for some type of good.

“Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.”

With love,

Tori 🩷