Film Friday Wrestler Mark Kerr has never lost a fight, and when he is asked in an interview how he would cope with losing he cannot comprehend the question. The idea of losing is just beyond him. And then he loses the fight. And this strong man falls apart. He cannot cope with the experience of failure.
We all experience weakness in one way or another. It’s a shared language, this life refuses to be steered our way all the time. It ambushes us and trips us up. In his second letter to the Corinthians chapter 12 verse 9, Paul writes this -‘ God said to me, “My power works best in weakness.” So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Jesus can work through me.’ There are two shocking things there, the notion that God’s power works through our weakness, and that Paul gladly BOASTS about being weak!!! Can you imagine if we regularly had a time in our church services when folks turned to one another and boasted about their failures?
Before losing the fight Mark buys a beautiful bowl for his girlfriend, but it’s no ordinary bowl, he is in Japan and it’s a piece of kintsugi art. The bowl has been previously broken and rather than hiding the cracks, it has been repaired with gold, to make those cracks a prominent feature. In that second letter to the Corinthians in chapter 4 verse 7, Paul writes about the way we are all cracked pots, and that God’s light shines out through those cracks to others. It’s not easy but let’s offer our weaknesses to our loving God, that his light may shine out through them to others. We are all weak, and it’s not about our strength, but about God’s.
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