Defeat or da feet?

How are you living your life these days? Are you living a life of defeat? Are you defeated by the trials of life? Why? You can go to da feet of Jesus and live a victorious life! His death, burial, and resurrection are our victory! God will allow some bumps and bruises in your life to ultimately grow your charcter to where He sees fit. He is often compared to the potter molding clay in His hands. Now if you imagine what the clay "feels" like as it is getting molded, we could see that being painful. But I want to give you a better comparison. Let's look at one of our country's most famous landmarks, Mount Rushmore. I have seen video footage of the creation of Mount Rushmore, they used dynamite blasts, heavy duty drilling, hammers, grinders, etc. Now that is rather uncomfortable sounding, but now we all stand in awe of the new creation. What was once a broken and jagged granite rock face, is now a creation with little to equal it. Was it a bed of roses transforming a cliff into four men's faces? No. Is it a bed of roses being taken from that very rough lump of clay and being molded into a vessel that can be used by the Master? No. Is it worth it? Yes! It says in Isaiah 53:5 that by His stripes, we are healed. In our individual lives, by our own stripes we are grown. He uses His stripes to heal us and uses our own stripes to reveal us to the world as the greatest creation we can be. We have to make sure not to quit because it hurts, it's hard, it's uncomfortable, it's not what I had planned, it's not the most glorious thing I can do, it's not fun, it's not my forte or because it's where you're at your weakest.

2 Corinthians 12:9,10
9 Each time he said, "My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness." So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ can work through me.
10 That's why I take pleasure in my weaknesses, and in the insults, hardships, persecutions, and troubles that I suffer for Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Allow Him to show His strength through your weakness; it will make you stronger!

You see, as long as you live at da feet, you'll never have to live in defeat. He'll meet you there.....He'll teach you there.

By the way; you should know that this is the lesson God is teaching me in my life right now! He is allowing me the blessing of seeing His power through my weakness. He is growing me, molding me, making me a more usable tool for the Kingdom. I am suddenly reminded of a previous post with a little tehilah in it (see below). Here is the excerpt I am thinking of:

Bend me, shape me
anyway You want me

Mold me, make me
anyway You want me

Send me, Use me
Your blood has bought me

He must have heard the same song.......hmmmmmm......THANK YOU LORD!!!
May I always live at da feet of my King rather than in defeat! and you?