Jennifer the Weakling :)

So, today has been a great day. And this has been a great week. Amongst all the chaos in my life right now, God is being glorified, and this my dears, makes me overflowed with joy.

God keeps putting a verse in my head and heart that makes me smile every time. Its like He is telling me himself over and over the exact thing I need to hear. When I am weak, good grief God looks so much stronger than I had ever thought he could have been before. It makes life so much more wonderful with this new perspective.

2 Corinthians 12:5-10

New International Version (NIV)

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.

I can't help but marvel at how wonderful God is when things are in an uproar.

Its like a beautiful refreshing oasis in the middle of a hot, sticky, dry, dead, desert. Like a sunny tropical island protected inside a bubble from a massive hurricane. Like a breath of fresh air.

He is so far removed from all of the grossness of this world. its outrageously beautiful.

David wrote a ton about this in the Psalms and I think I am beginning to understand why and how he can say "Glory be to God!" in the middle of some really sucky stuff. It's because God is the polar opposite of any of the crap this world might try to throw at you, even if it is God's plan for you to go through hardships, oh my goodness, he is always there to confide in when it seems too hard. And when you come to Him, its like going from a place where lightning strikes and thunder roars to a place where all you hear is the breeze and birds chirping.

He is the ultimate encourager too. I find it flattering when he said in the Bible that He would never put us through anything that He didn't think we could handle, and he gives me some really tough stuff to deal with. That's a huge compliment. I mean seriously, it like the day that your parents hand you the keys to the car, times a million. That confidence that someone else believes that you can do it not only feels good, but makes you believe you can do it too.

I have felt a mountain of blessing over the past few months, even though these have been some of the hardest to go through, I can say without a doubt, Oh Lord, my God, how wonderful, beautiful, and glorious You are.