Do You Know Your Weakness?

Do you know your weakness?

We all have them.

Recently I have been some of facing some of mine -

Things that are not as they should be in my life.

In a day and age where opinions are prevalent,

May I look within, with Jesus by my side,

Examining what He wants me to give to Him.

My pride, my selfishness, my everything.

The below sums up an important message for us all.

I've met this lady in person years ago,

And she is so full of life.

I appreciate the way she can communicate succinctly.

"Do you know and own your harmartia? You’d better. Everyone has one, and it will likely destroy things that are very precious if you don’t get on top of it. Harmartia comes from the Greek language and it means a potentially fatal personal flaw that, unchecked, leads to a tragic downfall. Let’s talk about fiction or people far away from us to make it more comfortable: David’s harmartia was his lust for beautiful women; Frodo’s was his obsession with the power the ring gave him; Marty McFly’s was his inability to walk away when someone suggested he was chicken; Thanos’ harmartia was his hubris and arrogance, believing he alone knew what was best and assumed authority that was not his.

Look around you on the worldwide landscape and you will be able to identify the harmartia, the fatal flaws, everywhere. You see leaders on a big scale and a small scale doing the wildest things that are saying far more about themselves than they realize . You can probably identify the same thing within your own circle. Maybe you do. Maybe you call them out. But where we most need to focus is ourselves. What’s the thing if you don’t admit it and deal with it will most likely take you down?

Not a single one of us is a “grace graduate.” We all have tremendous ability to screwup. We need honest self-assessment, humility, grace. As I watch harmartia on a massive level at work in our world today, destroying so much, I am working with God with a new intensity of desire to not detonate bombs in my world because of my failure to own and address my flaw. God help me."

-Brenda Mason Young