The Grammarian defines the idiom, “leg up” as a “position of advantage”. Early in my diagnosis, I came to see II Corinthians 12:8-10 in a new light. That passage is where the Apostle Paul talks about his physical problem that was so aggravating he prayed three times for God to heal him. What arrested my attention was God’s message too him, “…my power is made perfect in weakness.” When people say, “I feel so sorry for you”, I want to say, “Hey, I have a leg up on you in being filled with God’s power”!
Perhaps, as Christ followers, we should all say, with Paul, “Now I take limitations in stride, and with good cheer, these limitations that cut me down to size—abuse, accidents, opposition, bad breaks. I just let Christ take over! And so the weaker I get, the stronger I become.” (II Cor. 12:10 Message)
“Leg up” Robinson
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