This is the lesson I'm walking through with my Adonai currently. My grandmother, Annabelle unexpectedly passed away last Thursday night. She was obviously advanced in age and it clearly was the Lord's timing for her departure. But to our knowledge, she had not given her life to Him. We do not yet know if her soul was rescued from the pit. Someday we will.
On Friday I stayed at home to grieve the loss of my Grandma. I also started to get sick. Just a common head cold at first, but here I am a week later and still not functioning at 100%. I do not know what to attribute all of my symptoms to. But be assured that I've endured much more than a runny nose and headache. After a four-day-weekend I returned to full days of rehearsals but my body has struggled to get through each day. Yesterday I almost passed-out for the first time in my life. So I'll get to my point...the flesh is weak.
This body in which I've lived for twenty years, persevering through rigorous dance training year after year, stretching and bending and pushing it to its very limits, it is still weak. Because if my God allows for something to stop functioning properly, it will and I can't fix it. Only He can because He is My Healer, the Great Physician.
This concept is especially real to me because I know two strong women who are experiencing human frailty also. One is a brave woman, married with children whose husband was recently diagnosed with colon cancer. The other is a girl my age who was in a traumatic car accident with her fiance and he has been (to my knowledge) mostly unconscious in the hospital for over two weeks. Both of these women I know want with everything in them, to be able to fix their sweethearts. Again, we are powerless.
But when we are weak, He shows Himself strong. Always. Everytime. In every way. A very present help in time of trouble.
We need Jesus. We need His Spirit. Because our flesh is but dust, and to dust it WILL return. Make no mistake. So I think the answer is in Romans 8. And rather than telling you why here, I simply encourage you to go and read it yourself.
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