We all have weakness, strengths and abilities. How we handle them can make all the difference.
I tend to be shameful of my weaknesses and prideful of my abilities. Yet it is my weakness that has produced fruit in my life. While my perceived strengths have become a sticking point for me. Through acknowledgement of my weak points I have been able to see how they have positively affected who I have become. Likewise the acknowledgement of my abilities has shown to be one of my greatest stumbling blocks.
Things are now reversed as I thank God for my weakness, which produces character. And ask him to help me manage my perceived strengths so that they do not cause me to stumble and fall.
~ elr
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