His hands or Yours?

Where are your weaknesses? Where are your fears? I was reminded of this visual God gave me last week again tonight. Think of your weaknesses as those things that trip you up, those things that the enemy knows about it(those buttons so to speak). Where are they at? Are they still in your hands, where you are trying to do the best you can to fix them or overcome them? OR Are they in His hands, where He alone can take care of things?

Take that weakness or that fear, that you spend a lot of time thinking about (whether you mean to or not)(that if only.....). Now place it in His hands and as you walk away He takes it and wraps His hands around it like a fist. Now keep walking, but wait there comes a thought (Be it, if only I looked a certain way, if only I could do this, if only this person would, if only this would happen, (Get the picture?).....are you going to entertain the thought or keep reminding yourself, It's in His hands, it's in His hands?


There are some things that only God can fix. Some things that we can only overcome with His strength and His power, basically things we can only overcome with Him. So continuing to think about it is like prying open His hand and exposing that weakness to the enemy. Remember God said in His word, I can do all things through Him who gives me strength. If it's something that is a part of His plan(and you'll know it when it is), trust Him and leave it in His hands. Keep walking forward knowing that He's got it.

Now I would love to tell you that once He showed this picture, I was able to take it and make progress. Not always.....there have been some days with a couple of those weak areas that I've had to apologize when I've let flesh have its way and played on that weakness. So I have envisioned myself going back and wrapping His arm back around that "thing" ;-)

God knew our weaknesses when He made us. He didn't make a mistake. The weaknesses make  you a part of you(just like your strengths do). Those weak spots are not to make you feel bad about yourself (or for you to let other people make you feel bad about yourself). You are a precious creation in God's sight. He loves you just the way you are and thinks you are BEAUTIFUL!!! (Side note: If God has told you to exercise more, eat better etc. then do it(yes I'm speaking to myself here, but do it not because you want to weigh a certain amount, but because you want to be healthy to do what God has planned for you(guess what pounds will come off when you get healthy). As the childhood song says, we are weak, but He is strong. Turn those weak spots over to God and keep walking forward.  God's got it and can do more with them than you ever dreamed possible. When the thoughts come(and they will), just keep saying It's in His hands. After all, you really can't do anything about it anyway ;-)

Until next time
More to come soon ;-)
~Melissa