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July 31, 2007
Bigness is my Weakness…
“Bigness is my weakness, oh yeah, bigness is my weakness” we would sing in syncopated rhyme as our Super Mario character was reduced in size by an enemy goomba. It always appeared like having an enlarged, mushroomed-up character (giving you a free hit before death) made you a bigger (and therefore more vulnerable) target for the koopas and other enemies, while having a smaller and therefore weaker (one touch leads to death) character gave you a greater chance to slip by unscathed.
So here it is… the theological tie in. You knew it was coming. This is so much like the spiritual life! When we are weak then we are strong and that sort of thing.
2 Cor 12:9-10 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 of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong. (ESV)
The trick comes in attaining the right kind of weakness so that you can have that elusive supernatural strength, because as experience tells us not all weakness leads to added strength.
When I am in false pride having a pity party about how hard my life is I don’t think that God’s power is being made perfect. When I am in weakness giving in to sin, God’s power is definitely not being made perfect.
But when I am in humility striving to obey what I know but yet struggling in hardship and trial while enduring not for my own good image but for the glory of God and his kingdom, I am small and all of his bigness, his omnipotence, the very power that raised Christ from the dead rests upon me.
Pride, fear, sin, thinking more highly of myself then I ought… all that puffs up – the bigness – is truly my weakness.
Now if only I could find one of those mushrooms that makes you invincible to enemies…
Posted by paul at July 31, 2007 07:35 PM