During one of the darkest hours of his life, the apostle Paul received a revelation of God’s strengthening grace that revolutionized his thinking and his life. After he had sought the Lord in three seasons of prayer, beseeching Him to cause the debilitating thorn in the flesh/messenger of Satan to depart from him, the Lord answered. But rather than delivering Paul from his situation as he had prayed, the Lord delivered to Paul a revelation of His strengthening grace! This revelation of the available provision of divine help for his time of need revolutionized Paul’s life. He began immediately to rejoice, knowing that in his weakness, the power of Christ would rest upon him and knowing that even when he was weak in himself, he could be strong in grace!

The last two years have been unbelievably hard. Almost everyone I know has gone through a rough time - even if it is the stress from the world around us. Although we can't do anything about what has happened, we do have a choice about how we let those things affect us. Maybe you need to release the last year – let it go (cue the music) and keep your eyes focused on what lies ahead.