Bible Study teacher and author Christine Hoover didn’t realize she would face a severe personal test while writing a study on Second Corinthians. Around the time she began writing “More than Enough: God’s Strength in our Weakness in 2 Corinthians,” she and her husband got the call no parent wants to receive.
“…my second thought every day was, I can’t do this. I don’t have what it takes to put one foot in front of the other. And I found myself; I would tell myself I needed to be strong. I needed to care for my family. I needed to have what it takes to care for them. And every morning, the Lord would remind me specifically through the verse you just mentioned, He wasn’t asking me to be strong. He was saying, ‘Bring your weakness, bring those thoughts to me. Rely on me to give you the strength that you will need for this day to go to the cancer clinic with your son to face the uncertainty.’ He’s asking us to be dependent, not to be strong,” she said.
It wasn’t an easy journey, but she learned to trust God and rely on His strength instead of her own, and then she says, “God did a miracle.”
