When Your Strength Fails

There is a human strength driven by will, desire and ambition. To pursue a dream or goal requires strength to endure hardships and other difficulties before experiencing a measure of success.

But for many of us we simply want strength to get through the day. We need strength to deal with all the demands, distractions and pressures we will face at work or at home. We crave for strength to refuse temptation than giving way to it because we are too exhausted to fight.

Even the strong will have moments when strength fails and weakness overtakes them. Samson was such a man who the Lord gave supernatural strength to do incredible feats, but all too often his fleshly desires devoured him. One day he kills a lion. Later as he passed by that place he noticed a nest of bees in the lion's carcass. He makes a riddle out of what he sees and uses it to his advantage against the Philistines. "Out of the eater, something to eat; out of the strong, something sweet." (Judges 14:4).

We know the devil is like a roaring lion seeking whom he can devour (I Peter 5:8). But like Samson who was given strength by God, we too can silence the devil's roaring and bring down our already defeated foe. Make no mistake nothing comes out of the devil that is sweet and refreshing. But God knows how to take whatever the enemy has thrown at us to make us sweeter, gentler and more trusting in God!

Destroying our enemy to produce honey is not what the doctor had in mind when ordered bed rest! But true strength comes in ways we could never imagine and from sources that from the natural seem impossible. The Lord wants to teach us a powerful lesson that we need Him entirely. We must learn to lean on everything He says as being true and right not in our own strength of wit and will.

Mediate on this Scripture and the Lord will refresh your heart. Out of Baca (a place of weeping) tears become a life giving spring where strength is found. Remember beloved every trial God brings us through makes us better not bitter.

Passing through the valley of Baca they make it a spring; The early rain also covers it with blessings. They go from strength to strength, Every one of them appears before God in Zion. O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer; Give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah.… (Psalms 84:5-7).