"Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong." (2 Corinthians 12:9-10)

At our last staff meeting, Ben Viscarra, one of our teachers, spoke on this verse. He asked us the question, "What do we delight in?" A great number of things were said, like music, coffee, relationships, seeing people grow, things of this nature. Ben shared with us what Paul delighted in, in weakness and infirmity, according to this verse. For me that is such a strange thing to delight in and really didn't make much sense to me but yesterday, with that in mind, I got a little glimpse of why Paul felt that way.

Mind you, this is nothing in comparison to what Paul went through, but I am a little Christian so I think it is legitimate. Every weekend an intern takes over in the kitchen, cooking and making meals for all the students. For me, this is a difficult task as I dont know really how to cook. I know some basic things but cooking (and especially for 80 people) pretty much is far from my comfort zone. Basically the story is, that yesterday was a very trying day, after not sleeping Saturday night and having to get up early and being very emotionally drained I told the Lord I couldn't do it. Making dinner was too much for me, then He reminded me of these verses and I knew He was going to give me strength. And He really did, He gave me joy and helped me to be more than decent to people. I thought that it is very rarely that I get opportunity to really be stretched and pulled like that, and I think that is exactly what Paul delighted in, those opportunities where he could see the Lord be his strength when he was weak. Every weakness and difficult situation was an exciting way to see the Lord do something amazing! Maybe our flesh doesn't like to be pulled on but after that dinner I was so thankful to the Lord because I knew He had done it! And I look forward to more of those pulling times where His strength has to be revealed through my weakness!