Modeling Weakness

“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is perfected in weakness.” —2 Corinthians 12:9

When most of us picture mentorship, we often imagine an older woman with her life put together teaching the inexperienced young women how to do it all right. Maybe this is why it’s hard for us to reach across the aisle and lean into these friendships. We’re expecting the wrong things from them.

Young women fail to find that older woman offering a step-by-step plan to solve all of life’s problems, and older women stop offering themselves because they know their own problems too well. In our disappointment, we keep to ourselves.

But modeling weakness, not strength, is the goal. In our weakness, God’s strength is perfected. In our weakness, we’re forced to our knees. We don’t need to learn how to eradicate our weakness but how to trust God in it.

That means, older women, the only requirement you need to help us younger women is your weakness and your trust in God. We need to see you live in your weakness so we know how to live in ours.

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“Mentorship Is Modeling Weakness” (ReviveOurHearts.com/blog)

Scripture taken from The CSB