Proverbs 16:26 The laborer's
appetite works for him. His hunger dries him on.
I like this one because there are so many times when I am worried or upset about something, and I wish I could just have a rest from all the worrying. But I know that I can only get that through God, so the fact that I have these feelings that cause me to "hunger" for peace makes me work harder to get closer to Him.
2 Corinthians 12:9-10 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.
I like this one because I know that I have lots of weaknesses. The hardest one for me to deal with right now is fear over Eric's upcoming deployment. I am really struggling to find peace with that one. That fear leads to a lot of other issues in my life that affect many things.. I hate that fear. I want it to go away, but as long as that deployment is still a factor, it just won't. Not completely. So this verse gives me a little bit of peace about having that weakness, and not being able to completely conquer it. God can still use me. In fact, maybe even better than he could if I had a perfect, faithful attitude that in the end, "everything is gonna be ok".
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