I Found His Strength...Through My Weakness

By Diane K. Chamberlain
www.diane-chamberlain.com

I'm walking in the sunlight of your beauty,
with a heart that's burning to serve You more each day;
Then before I know it...I was thrown into a pit of despair,
where all I saw was darkness in my way.
I struggle to climb out..
trying to win this battle on my own;
while in the midst of this darkness,
my God reminds me, "You can't win this battle alone".
Then at that moment, He took me back to a cross,
as a picture...He allows me to view in my minds eye;
the tears start to flow...
as I see the stripes that came upon Him,
just before He was nailed to the cross to die.
A stripe for mental anguish,
a stripe for hardships, sin and pain;
there were more stripes that continually came upon Him,
as He was whipped again and again.
Then I saw a picture of His death,
with nails in His hands and feet...

and a sword thrust into His side;
and there He remained in anguish,
until the moment He hung His head and died.
I saw them take Him down from the cross,
as they took Him to a tomb to lay;
from there I saw the stone move to the side,
as He came from the tomb that third day.
As I continued to sit in my pit of despair,
I suddenly caught something from the corner of my eye;
it was a hand reaching down from the top of my pit,
say, He had heard me cry out,while passing by.
As He began to reach closer to where I sat,
I noticed a mark on His hand;
I then knew it was the scars, from the nails on the cross,
it was then He touched me...

His presence caused me to instantly stand.
Where once I had felt weakness...
His strength began to take control;
as He lifted me out of the pit I was in,
I felt Him make me whole.
For all the efforts that I had made,
to free myself from that pit of despair;
it had made me to become weaker,
to a place where I just couldn't care.
I learned, I had to take a trip to Mount Calvary,
through tears, I layed my weakness at His cross;
that's when He came by my pit of despair,
and brought me His strength,

where once all hope had been lost.

God Bless!

It's Only Because of Him,
Diane K. Chamberlain

Email: DianChamberlain@aol.com

www.diane-chamberlain.com

    GOD HAS GOOD

 PLANS

 FOR YOUR

FUTURE

know what I'm doing.

 I have it all planned out--

plans to take care of you,

 not abandon you,

plans to give you

the future you hope for.

   "When you call on me,

when you come

and pray to me,

 I'll listen.

Jeremiah 29:11

(Message Bible)