I want to quickly jot down a couple thoughts and the blog seemed as good a place as any. The power of God in the weakness of man is not just the theme of 2 Corinthians (see 2 Cor 12:9) – the book which I’m currently expounding in our church – but one that courses through the whole of the Bible. I think of Psalm 20:7-8:
Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God. They collapse and fall, but we rise and stand upright.
Yet, I was surprised to find it again in Jeremiah 38, this morning. In this chapter, Jeremiah presents the rebellious regent, Zedekiah, with his options before the encircling Babylonians in vv. 17-18: