Day 1 – Identification

“She is clothed with strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future.” Proverbs 31:25

“You are just too weak,” my Biokineticist said while I was trying to push myself up on my recovering leg. Words I really did not want to hear or care to hear ever in my life. I do not think of myself as weak and when pointed out to me I hear the theme song of Rocky (the boxing movie) playing through my head and with sheer determination I will try to prove I am not weak. My leg started to shake, and I slumped to the ground. He was right. After a year of recovery and physiotherapy, I sat on the grey, industrial carpet floor coming to terms with my weakness. Honestly, I wanted to curl up in a little ball and cry.

“For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions.” 2 Timothy 3:6. Here the word “weak” popped up again in my Bible study. And associated with women too! I do understand that being created as the fairer sex we do not have the same functionality as our masculine Adams does, but that does not make us weak, does it? You can be soft, feminine, and all the woman you are created to be but still have the fire, determination, and courage of God to say Yes to God’s truth and No to unrighteousness.

 I learned the Greek word describing weak women in this verse is: Gunaikarion which means silly women, little women, or foolish women. Just like weak – silly, little, foolish women are not adjectives I want to be associated with either. What I learned on the floor that day was that there are times I am weak or have a weakness, and the only way to overcome it is to identify it, work on it and change it to strength. And though it was a physical weakness I tried to overcome, I also learned that I have spiritual weaknesses in certain areas too which need identification. During this devotional, we will look at a few things in 2 Timothy 3 which might be areas of weakness you can identify in your life.

A daughter of the King is not weak, silly, little, or foolish but is clothed by God in strength and dignity!  

Prayer: Father, thank You for teaching me the precious lesson that there are times that I am weak, but I shouldn’t see my weakness as a failure. Help us during this devotional to identify weak areas in our spiritual lives and give us the knowledge and understanding to exercise them into areas of strength. Amen.

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