Note: When I prepared this, it was before the bombing of Iran. I thought about changing it. As I was writing, I somehow started thinking about Footprints and began adding. I’m not even sure the actual thoughts make sense now.
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I watched a D-Day veteran meeting with young people in a school last night on Facebook Reels. It was heartwarming to see. The old soldier spoke of being blessed. I saw a comment that caught my eye: “To carry life’s burden and still feel blessed is the true meaning of strength.” I found it powerful. Psalm 29:11 is succinct and captures the essence of the comment to me.
To carry life’s burdens and still feel blessed is not a matter of strength alone but of the grace of God meeting us in our weakness. I figure Christ gives strength to us, blessed with peace.
Even when I am weary and no matter the burden, His grace is sufficient. It means His power is made perfect in me. I should be able to do all things being blessed with the strength He gives us. That reminds me of the last of the last stanza of Footprints, which I’ll link for those not familiar.
A man questions the Lord why, during a man’s roughest times, there was but one set of footprints in the sand when the Lord had always promised He would walk with him.
The Lord responded, “My son, My precious child, I love you, and I would never leave you. During your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried You.”