This is a message we all need to drink in: it’s ok not to have it all together. How many of you feel like you have to have it together all the time? Like you can’t ever show weakness, or anything that’s not positive, especially in Christian leadership. This doesn’t mean that we don’t know who we are in Christ, and it doesn’t mean that we don’t have the victory at the end of the day, but we do have moments when we need to lean; we do have moments when we need prayer; we do have moments when we need to say, “Can I just talk to you for a minute and share what’s going on in my heart?” To be able to go to Jesus, to go to people in your inner circle that are cheering you on and say “I don’t have it all together now.”
This is the thing, family. When we don’t have it together is when we trust God the most. That’s why He allows us to have weakness. When you have those moments when you feel like, “I don’t have it together” that’s ok! I want to tell you that it’s ok. I know I’ve had times when I feel like I’ve shared with people and they feel like it’s not ok to not be ok, but those are not your people. I know it’s frustrating with people who are never ok…we don’t want to be that! But to have moments of leaning? That’s when we need Jesus the most. Know today, it’s ok not to have it all together.
To help you remember, here are some scriptures and quotes for you to meditate on this week.
Each time he said, “My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness.” So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ can work through me. That’s why I take pleasure in my weaknesses, and in the insults, hardships, persecutions, and troubles that I suffer for Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
2 Corinthians 12.9-10
“Be patient with yourself. Nothing in nature blooms all year.”
~Unknown
LORD, be gracious to us; we long for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of distress.
Isaiah 33.2
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Psalm 73.26
“It’s okay to not be okay. Just keep moving forward. It’s a bad day, not a bad life.”
~Thobi D. Brown
I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.
John 16.33
I lift up my eyes to the mountains—where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.
Psalm 121.1-2
So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Isaiah 41.10
