If we were all given the choice to be “weak” or “strong,” most of us would choose strength without hesitation. Strength feels safe. Strength feels admirable. Strength feels like proof that we are doing something right.

Often, knowingly or unknowingly we expect God to perfect our shortcomings as a reward for serving Him. We assume faith should remove weakness. But Scripture teaches us something far more humbling and far more powerful: God’s power is displayed best in weakness.

There is a reason for this. God alone searches the deepest parts of the human heart. He knows us better than we know ourselves. He understands what unchecked strength can do to us. How quickly it can turn into pride, self-reliance, and spiritual blindness.

The life of Apostle Paul makes this truth unmistakably clear.

Paul was used mightily by God. Through him came miracles, revelations, healings, and deep spiritual insight. But God also knew that such extraordinary experiences could quietly inflate pride. So God allowed weakness to remain.

Paul tells us that he was given a thorn in the flesh. A persistent affliction he described as a messenger of Satan sent to torment him and keep pride in check. Three different times Paul pleaded with God to remove it. Three times God refused.

Instead, God answered him with words that have echoed through generations, recorded in Second Epistle to the Corinthians 12:7–9: “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness.”

In other words: No, I will not remove it, but I will remain with you. And that is enough.

Paul eventually understood what many of us struggle to accept; that weakness was not a curse, but a safeguard. It kept him humble. It reminded him that he was still growing. It forced him to rely on God rather than his own gifting or success.

Our weaknesses do the same for us.

They keep us from living entirely in pride.
They remind us that we are still a work in progress.
They teach us to lean more on God and less on ourselves.

Strength may impress people, but dependence pleases God.

There is a difference between being a Christian and depending on God. Being a Christian can become a label, a moment, or even a habit. But depending on God is a daily posture, a lifetime choice to trust Him in both strength and weakness.

Being a Christian may work for a moment.
Depending on God works for a lifetime.

The choice is yours.

God bless.