Comforted part 4
Weakness isn't weakness. If that makes any sense. Because weakness is an opportunity. Both for someone else to help you, and for you to LET someone else help you. Not being able to do something yourself is ok. You're not supposed to do everything yourself. At the very least you're supposed to rely on your heavenly Father. We aren't supposed to follow in His foot steps. We are supposed to let Him make His own foot steps with our feet. We aren't supposed to try to live Jesus's life. We're supposed to let Jesus live His own abundant, everlasting, eternal, Resurrection Life in us, and through us, and as us. We are supposed to experience and enjoy His life as He lives it. Because nobody can live Jesus's life except Jesus. Nobody is supposed to. Remember when we talked about one accord? Unity? How we're all in this together? Well, if I'm living Jesus's life, by letting Him live it in me, and you're living Jesus's life, by letting Him live it in you, then we'll be able to comfort each other. Help each other. Forgive each other. Coexist with each other. Live with each other. LOVE each other. And that's the whole point of the whole thing. We were created to be loved, and to love. To receive and release the love of God. To let it in and out with every breath we take and every move we make. So when you see someone who looks "weak," don't condemn them. That's your time to shine. I always say we should never look down on someone unless we are reaching down to help them up. And if you're the one feeling weak... don't see that as a failure. See that as an opportunity to let someone else shine in your life. To let someone else pick up the slack. It's more blessed to give than to receive, right? So if we always think we can do it all ourselves, we're not letting anybody else give in our lives. It's kind of like the idea of how the saddest people try the hardest to make people happy--because they know, intimately, what it feels like to be sad, and they don't want anybody else to experience that. If we spend all of our time helping people (and I'm not saying we shouldn't do that) we are, in a sense, robbing people from the chance to help us. "I can do it myself!" Maybe you can, and maybe you can't. But you don't have to. And you shouldn't. Things work out better when we work together. We're all in this together. And, in a very real way, I'm comforted WHEN I comfort you. If you want to feel love... love somebody. If you want to feel forgiveness... forgive someone. It's not about what you get, but what you give. It's not about getting something you think you haven't got, it's about giving what you have got. So if you encounter weakness--in yourself or someone else--don't look at it as weakness. Look at it as an opportunity. When you help someone, or when someone helps you, that creates or strengthens the bond. The relationship. The love!