When the going get's tough

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. 2 Cor. 10:12

How was Paul able to say that when he was weak he was actually strong? In weakness, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, and in difficulties Paul was able to feel strong.

There's a tremendous strain on our nation right now, many things are uncertain, every week we are hearing layoffs and great hardships. Seems like every time I'm driving I'm seeing more and more homeless people. People who appear recently homeless at that. Yesterday I received a call from my boss regarding the talks about lay offs at our company. This morning as I came into work people are walking on egg shells. There's a sadness and stillness in the office like the eye in the middle of the storm. Based on the reaction of people before anything has taken place it's evident what people have placed their trust in. I'm not trying to minimize the magnitude of what it means to lose a job, but when you are squeezed, when you are really stretched who you really are is revealed. What's been revealed is people have depended on jobs, on money, on things, to provide happiness and now that America is seeing this great hardship the happiness is gone. Isn't that what happiness is built on happenings? When those things that make us happy are taken away what do we have left? Paul said I have joy, I have delight, I have pleasure in hard times because whether it was going good or it was bad I have always built my life on what lasts and that is Christ. We need God, we need an authentic, and genuine touch of the Master on our nation. Now is the time to live for Christ, now is the time to bring hope to a hurting world, now is the time to love and give radically.

Questions to think about?

What is revealed when your stretched?
Have you built yourself on an eternal perspective or on earthly preferences?

Lord your word say's If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. We need a healing in our land, so I seek and pray and turn to you. Let us hear from heaven, not from a podcast, not from someone else's devotional or story but let us hear directly from you today, Revelation, Signs, wonders, Miracles...