Beyond Conquering: Grace in 2024
God provides us with the opportunity to fail to remind us that we are fallible and to keep our hold on His grace.
I tend to strive for superhuman levels of performance. While 90% of professional athletes barely make it past a year, consider athletes like LeBron James or Tom Brady who enjoy the luxury of staying fit and healthy well into their later years.
How often do we see their bad days? We often hear their glory stories, but what about the days when their families miss them, their bodies don’t want to get out of bed, they’re battling mental crises, their emotions lead them to binge-eat pizza and watch Netflix, or they just have a lackluster performance in practice? I’m sure they aren’t immune to struggle.
As Christians, we often want everything to be prim and proper, always in place, not a single strand of hair straying from the path of perfection. We want to slap filters on our photos to hide the flaws and blemishes that would embarrass us in the digital world.
What if God leaves us in our imperfections to suffer in silence as a lesson? Perhaps the lesson is that “power is made perfect in weakness.” What if God chooses to speak through silence and struggle, showing us our humanity rather than speaking audibly or tangibly?
