God’s Grace Speaks of His Love for You
“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.”
2 Corinthians 12:9 (NIV)
“If this is how God loves, then I don’t want any part of it,” a friend said to me as I sat across from her in a coffee shop.
She had experienced a long season of difficulty that left her discouraged and disillusioned with God. “I’m a good person,” she reasoned. “I try to live right.”
Her statements expressed the sentiment of the age-old question: “If God is loving, why does He allow bad things to happen to good people?” I could relate. I, too, had experienced difficult seasons, not once or twice but multiple times in my life.
In those times, I’d been tempted to doubt the love of God. This is because I, like my friend, had mistakenly equated God’s love with a trouble-less life. Although this type of life does not exist, there is a strong temptation to assume if you worship, serve and love God, your life will be void of problems.
When we look at the men and women of the Bible, we realize God’s love is constant in the midst of difficulties. We see this when we examine the life of Paul: “Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness’” (2 Corinthians 12:8‑9 NIV).
