Drooping hands and weak knees or faith alive?
Wednesday, 4th week in Ordinary time
Heb: 12:4-7,11-16; Mk 6:1-6
God is all powerful except before our free will... it is not that God is incapable but God has chosen to implant that freedom which is God's own image and likeness within us. At times we may feel we are afflicted but we are not without the means to withstand them. We have within us the necessary strength to stand up to these. At no time are we faced with a trial that is more than our capacity. That is the promise of the Word - 1Cor 10:13.
However, there is one thing that can drive us to despair... the drooping hands and weak knees... drooping hands symbolise my lack of faith in the capacity God has placed within me, weak knees symbolise the lack of dependence on God. These happen and I find myself helpless, because I do not perceive the Lord so close to me and so concerned about me - just like those who were not able to see Christ in Jesus!
What do you choose: drooping hands and weak knees or a faith alive?