Today I was reading Judges 6, and this portion of a verse jumped out at me: "Go in the strength you have" (Judges 6:14). God told Gideon to use the strength he had--not the strength he wished he had, or the strength of another person, just the strength he already had. Gideon argued that he was the weakest person from the weakest family. However, God delights in using weak people. Moses made the same argument, yet became one of the greatest servants of God.

In writing about his thorn in the flesh, Paul wrote: "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. 10 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 12:8-10).

I have to ask myself, "Am I delighting in my weaknesses? And am I doing what God has called me to do in the strength I already have?"