For when I am weak, then I am strong

I seem to be around people that always want to remind me of what I have not done with my life or that what I should be doing cause I shouldn't have to struggle anymore. But the funny thing is I am not really in a rush to join their rant of how much I don't have in the way of the world; cause the things that I do have I value. The clothes on my back, the food in my belly and the roof over my head; are from my struggles that my God has gotten me through. I live cause he gives me the strength to do so. If I were rich in the ways of the world would I call on him? Would I know what it is like to be in dark despair and have his grace and love as my light to guide me? I embrace my struggles and my weakness cause they make me a better daughter in Christ! Here is the verse that I shared: 2 Corinthians 12:1-10 New International Version (NIV) Paul’s Vision and His Thorn 12 I must go on boasting. Although there is nothing to be gained, I will go on to visions and revelations from the Lord. 2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know—God knows. 3 And I know that this man—whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, but God knows— 4 was caught up to paradise and heard inexpressible things, things that no one is permitted to tell. 5 I will boast about a man like that, but I will not boast about myself, except about my weaknesses. 6 Even if I should choose to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will think more of me than is warranted by what I do or say, 7 or because of these surpassingly great revelations. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9 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. 10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.