08/31/2026
This week in our "Bloom Where You're Planted" series, we looked at 2 Corinthians 11-12 and the remarkable resilience of the apostle Paul. Through shipwrecks, beatings, and relentless hardship, Paul discovered three counterintuitive principles: own your part in every situation, depend fully on God, and keep giving to others even when life gets hard.
When Paul begged God to remove his thorn in the flesh, God's answer was not removal but sufficiency. "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." (2 Corinthians 12:9) That is not a consolation prize. That is an invitation into something limitless.
You cannot choose your storms, but you can choose how you stand in them.