Beauty in Weakness

Betty Ford Alpine Gardens, Vail, Colorado

How many times did your mom yell at you to stay out the flowerbeds? I'm not sure how many times my mother told me to stay out but I know that I was in them often playing hide-and-go-seek, a pickup game of Whiffle Ball, and tossing a football with friends. Inevitably a plant or two would die from being trampled.

"For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly." Romans 5:6 English Standard Version

Like this flower, all of us are beautiful because we are creations of God. Those who believe in Christ and those who do not believe have all be fashioned by his hand, yet like this flower, we are all fragile because of sin. We are all on the road of death (Romans 6:23).

It is because of humanity's weakened condition that God emptied heaven of his Son who wilted by the weight of our sin. It is this Jesus who has risen from the dead and whose glory will never fade. It was at the right time that Jesus died for us. It was at the right time that Jesus rose from the dead for us.

You might be confronted with your weakness today. Anxiety has a strong grip on your life. An addiction has resurfaced. Sin is crouching at your door. Know with certainty that even though you feel weak, there is beauty in your weakness because of Jesus.

Because of Christ, you can bloom today.

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