"To keep me from becoming CONCEITED because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a THORN in my flesh, a messenger of SATAN, to torment me. 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. 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."
These verses run through my head over and over again. For me, there are many things I succeed at that are easy to see and measure (aka academics). Then there are the things that bother me over and over again, never ending. The thorn in my side. I ask God to take it away from me, again and again, but He says "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." I'm weak so that His glory may be shown. So I rejoice in my weakness. As much as it hurts.
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