Fraqueza
A fraqueza humana não é fraqueza diante de Deus. Pelo contrário, é na nossa fragilidade que o poder de Cristo se aperfeiçoa. Deus escolhe os fracos para confundir os fortes.
Poder na fraqueza
A minha graça te basta, pois o meu poder se aperfeiçoa na fraqueza. Quando sou fraco, então é que sou forte.
and He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness"; most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my weaknesses, that the power of the Christ may rest on me:
for this reason I am well pleased in weaknesses, in damages, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses—for Christ; for whenever I may be weak, then I am powerful;
for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;
I have strength for all things, in Christ’s strengthening me;
Deus cuida dos fracos
O Senhor está perto dos que têm o coração quebrantado. Ele dá poder aos fracos e renova a força dos cansados.
He is giving power to the weary, || And to those not strong He increases might.
My flesh and my heart have been consumed, || God [is] the rock of my heart and my portion for all time.
Judge the weak and fatherless, || Declare the afflicted and the poor righteous.
having cast all your care on Him, because He cares for you.
Come to Me, all you laboring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest;
Compaixão e intercessão
O Espírito intercede por nós com gemidos inexprimíveis. Jesus compreende nossas fraquezas porque foi tentado como nós.
And in like manner also, the Spirit helps our weaknesses; for what we may pray for, as it is necessary, we have not known, but [this] One—the Spirit—makes intercession for us with unutterable groanings,
for we do not have a Chief Priest unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but [One] tempted in all things in like manner, [yet] without sin;
Watch, and pray, that you may not enter into temptation: the spirit indeed is forward, but the flesh weak."
A rejoicing heart does good to the body, || And a struck spirit dries the bone.
Open your mouth for the mute, || For the right of all sons of change.