If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.
Proverbs 24:10
This Proverb has rarely been a comfort to me as it typically reminds me of how poorly I tend to handle adversity in my life. Like many of the Proverbs, today’s passage serves to highlight just how far we fall short of God’s standard, which Jesus summarized as, “You shall be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect”. The impossibility of God’s imperatives meets us in and through the difficulties we encounter in the midst of our closest relationships and most mundane circumstances. In short, we experience ‘the law-in-life’ as we face trials that may affect our health, our finances, our marriages, or just our overall wellbeing. While we discover that the law gives us more than our strength can handle, we also find grace that gives us better than our sin deserves…
It Is Finished…
Law, Grace, & Daily Living 