How is it that someone you don't even know can speak directly to you with a message that is exactly what you needed to hear? There is only one answer- the Almighty God!

Our guest pastor on Sunday spoke from 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 "To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 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." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. 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."

The speaker reminded me that as a believer and follower of Christ life will not always be perfect, neat or even close to tidy and that is okay and expected. It is okay to not have all of the answers as long as I remember that God will keep me. Humility is recognizing and embracing our limitations. Realizing that I can't do this myself. God is sufficient and dependable, not always the way we think things should happen but still holding to his promises. The thorns that come are real to us and ever persistent just as we also should be.

My final thought is Hebrews 12:1-2 "Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes of Jesus, the author and perfector of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God."