Have you ever read a self-help book and gotten through the first three pages and began to feel worse about yourself than you did when you started? You know the one. The book that makes you sometimes feel as if you have never been “that good”, nor will you ever be. The book that makes you want to cry because you feel like a complete and utter failure but that you also can’t put down because you’re just waiting for that one admission or slip up from the author that their lives are not that perfect, and neither are they. Whether it be a book about marriage, motherhood, friendship, personal growth, it doesn’t really matter WHAT the book is about, but the fact that it all just seems a little too good to be true. I can’t be the ONLY woman who has ever had these thoughts can I?
Well, believe this, no one is that perfect. No woman has it all together all the time, even if she looks like it. No mother has the perfect children nor is there a perfect mother. There is no perfect wife who is always loving, respectful, thoughtful, and selfless. There is no perfect woman, friend, daughter, sister. We ALL have insecurities, issues, weaknesses, fears, and life disasters. But we also have God given strengths, and power, and beauty and there IS a perfect God who can turn our inadequacies into beautiful moments in our lives.
I am on a life mission to focus on my strengths instead of my weaknesses. I will admit though that my weaknesses are an important part of my life. If I didn’t have weaknesses I may not realize my need for a savior. If everything in life was perfect, I wouldn’t need the Lord in my life to give me comfort and hope. As much as I have been hurt, crushed, alone, scared, I know without those experiences I wouldn’t really be who I am now. I wouldn’t feel the need or have a desire to know Jesus. I wouldn’t be seeking him. And for that alone I am grateful for my weaknesses.
2 Corinthians 12: 9-10 states – 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 (NIV). We can only truly know God’s strength if we admit our own weaknesses and admit our need for Him. I will continue to try my hardest to focus on my strengths to become the woman God wants me to be but I will also cherish my weaknesses that have brought me closer to Him. So the next time you feel your weaknesses overwhelming you, remember along with those weaknesses there is God given strength.
disastrouslyredeemed 
This is so true. Live your blog.
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