God’s Strength Consumes Human Weakness (February 16, 2026)

“The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in Him, and I am helped.” (Psalm 28:7)

We live in a world that glorifies strength and vitality. This mindset is seen in commercial advertising as attractive, vivacious actors, sports stars, and other celebrities persuade us to shell out hard-earned bucks to purchase products they claim will revolutionize our lives by melting fat, smoothing wrinkles, producing six-pack abs, and making us look ten years younger. Today’s culture emphasizes toughness, vigor, and potency, and frowns upon human weakness and frailty. In reality, however, our sinful, fallen state has left us riddled with infirmity, insufficiency, and inadequacy. “For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust.” (Psalm 103:14)

We are all faint, flawed, and feeble, but the all-powerful God who crafted us with love is aware of our human weaknesses and limitations, and supplies divine strength and sufficiency to those who trust and obey Him. The LORD is pleased and honored when we rely upon His inexhaustible power rather than experience the futility and failure that ultimately come when we try to act independently of Him. As believers who’ve accepted Jesus Christ as our personal Savior, we are enabled by a divine power source living within—the Holy Spirit, Christ in us, “the hope of glory.” (Colossians1:27) Scripture assures we can do all things through His strength.

We are woefully deficient to meet the challenges of living for Christ in our own power. But, as Christians, we serve and awesome “can do” God with whom nothing is impossible. We simply must humble our hearts before Him, yield our lives to His control, and allow Him to energize and empower us to love and serve one another. God’s strength consumes human weakness! Like Paul, we can take pleasure in our infirmities. “And He said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. (2 Corinthians 12: 9-10)