Strength in weakness
Rev. Jacob Maatman explores Paul's paradoxical teaching in 2 Corinthians 12 that divine strength is made perfect in human weakness, demonstrating how God's sovereign grace operates most powerfully through our inability and limitation. Drawing on Luther's theology of the cross, the article challenges worldly notions of strength and applies this biblical principle to the spiritual growth of young believers.
Strength The rubric under which this article appears is "Strength of Youth," and therefore it seemed fitting to write an article that commends weakness. It is a strange way to go about the subject, but we have the approach on good authority: the apostle Paul boasted in his weaknesses (quite something to boast in!) and concluded thus: "For when I am weak, then am I strong" (II Cor. 12:10). Strong, when weak! All this, because of what the Lord Jesus Christ said to him: "My grace is sufficient...
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