Addicts admit this, if you want to change your relationship to whatever’s controlling you. Leaders admit this, if you want to increase influence. Husbands admit this, if you want better relationships at home. Humans admit this, if you want, somehow, to experience something higher than any artificial substance can attempt to take you.
Admit what, you ask?
Admit you’re weakness. Broadcast it. As soon as you relieve your system of the pressure that comes when hiding and hurting, you’ll begin to feel a bit better. You see, the Apostle Paul was right when he wrote many moons ago to the Church at Corinth. In II Corinthians 12:9-10, Paul lays out some really good words. “And He said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in my infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”
Admit you’re weaknesses, my friends. Keep the right secrets. When you do something virtuous, keep it to yourself. Let it accrue within you. When you screw up and make another mistake, put it out there. Get rid of it. Broadcast it. Don’t hold onto it. The longer you keep it inside of you, the longer it lingers in your craw and turns into crud. The worse you’re soon gonna feel. And there, my friends, is the root of countless forms of addiction. Do you see it?
Who knew power in weakness went together. Who knew…
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