Romans 8:26
The Holy Spirit Helps Us in Our Weaknesses
26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.
2 Corinthians 12:5-10
For When I Am Weak I Am Strong
5 I will boast about a man like that, but I will not boast about myself, except about my weaknesses. 6 Even if I should choose to boast, I would not be a fool, because I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain, so no one will think more of me than is warranted by what I do or say, 7 or because of these surpassingly great revelations. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Grace and love helps us be wiser and get to wisdom...Yet, to love we must become vulnerable...And in the vulnerability of love, some might see this as a weakness...But weakness is not a hindrance for the wise...But because love often is misconceived in this insecurity of being vulnerable, a wise one's caring for another individual in need some may be seen as a weakness...And sometimes those we love most are the ones who are vulnerable and insecure...So there is somehow this strength in weakness...
St. Paul was a very wise man...He says that in weakness we shall find strength...The Holy Spirit helps us in our weaknesses...And love gives us strength...So somehow being vulnerable and in our vulnerabilities we can find strength...St. Paul wrote that he would not boast, except in his weaknesses...He had been given a thorn in his flesh that allowed the evil one to torment him...He prayed and pleaded with God to take this thorn from him three times, but God told him that His Grace was sufficient in Paul, for power is made perfect in weakness...In Paul's weaknesses the power of Jesus would dwell in them and therefore in him...Therefore, Paul would delight in weaknesses, in insults, in his distresses, in his persecutions, and in his calamities...So Paul learned to boast in his sufferings...For Paul had learned that when he was weak then he was strong...