What If Your Weaknesses Were Actually God’s Greatest Tools?

Does the thought of self-awareness scare you? Do you avoid seeing the truth of your heart? Do the people around you only tell you what you want to hear?

If you answered yes to one or more of those questions, you’re not alone.

Seeing our strengths and weaknesses are a good thing — not so that we could see ourselves in a positive or negative lens, but so we can be aware of who we are. God wants to show us the truth about ourselves so he can help us discover our purpose.

This clip comes from a recent podcast discussing the necessity of spiritual self-awareness. In this episode, we discuss questions asked by our audience about how to overcome the fears we may have around becoming self-aware.

Reflection questions

• How do you handle feedback when it doesn’t match your perception of yourself?
• What is the hardest thing for you to be honest with God about?
• Who are people in your life you can initiate with to ask for honest feedback to grow?
• What strengths and weaknesses has God given you that he wants you to be aware of?

Scripture references

Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror [24] and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.

James 1:23-24 NIV

But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.

2 Corinthians 12:9 BSB