Last week, I mentioned that just over 10 years ago on January 15, 2002, my life and hopes were shattered when my first wife died and my skull was fractured in the horrible car accident that occurred.  So in these blogs, I'm explaining the 3 most significant ways I've been changed over this past decade as we stand at the 10 year mark of that life-changing event.

Today's is a particular shift from SELF-reliance to GOD-reliance...

...which I now believe is literally one of the main reasons for our times of suffering, or sort of a "why answer"... i.e. why a good God lets us suffer -- to cause us self-reliant people to depend on Him more.

You see, between the apostle Paul's two letters to the church in Corinth, they suffered (and so did he), which is why 2 Corinthians 1:9 says, "In our hearts we felt the sentence of death.  This happened so that we might not rely on ourselves but on God who raised the dead."

A very, very tough lesson to learn, but oh so valuable.

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”   2 Corinthians 12:9a