Fanny Crosby, blinded at the age of five by a wrong prescription given by a doctor, wrote some 8,000 gospel hymns in her eighty-five blind years. Her blindness brought more glory to God than she could have imagined.
The sufferings of the Apostle Paul taught him to praise the Lord, knowing that God was in control.
He said, “It doesn’t make sense, but when I am at my weakest after the flesh, I am the strongest spiritually!” Why? Because it’s then the power of God can work in his life.
2 Corinthians 12:9-10 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
[10] Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
When we are broken by life and it’s infirmities, the Lord puts us in a position of complete dependence upon Him.
It’s then that God can move in us, on us, and through us in extraordinary ways.
Paul looked beyond the thorn and buffeting, seeing the power and the glory of God that was coming.
That’s why he had peace and could praise the Lord in the middle of his buffeting.
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