What Does My Grace Is Sufficient For You Mean?

ANSWER: It means that God chooses to display His power in us by sustaining us in our weakness.

Think about all the ways God displays his power. He controls the raging, torrential storms and the crippling droughts. He causes dictators and kings and presidents to rise and fall.

Occasionally, he puts the laws of nature in detention and does the miraculous, like when a woman is healed from terminal Stage 4 breast cancer.

God isn’t like the insecure, overly pimpled high school bully who constantly feels like he needs to establish his dominance. He’s quite confident in his power and has an infinite variety of ways he can flex his figurative biceps.

Throughout scripture, God makes it clear that we should have a healthy fear of the Lord.

All of this makes God’s preferred method of showing off his power rather strange. God’s grace is sufficient, and his is power is made perfect in:

weakness brokenness weariness. When Paul begged God to take away his thorn (whatever it was), God said this to him:

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” (2 Corinthians 12:9) Why Does God Use Our Weaknesses?

This verse is one of those scriptural double take, spew the water in surprise moments. It doesn’t make sense on the surface.

God could have delivered Paul and said to him, “My power is made perfect in my deliverance.” He could have said, “My mighty deliverance is sufficient for you.” But he didn’t.

Instead, he left Paul in his crippled state and said, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”

Weakness.

God’s power is greatest when we’re at our weakest.

And what we need most in our weakness is God’s sufficient grace, not more strength and not a dramatic deliverance.

In other words, what we need most is NOT a chance in circumstances.

Rather, we need to God’s grace that is sufficient for the very circumstances we find ourselves in. This is so backward from how the world operates.

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