Just a little something I've been learning as I was reading through Luke, in luke 1 we read the story of Zechariah the priest and how he is holy and blameless before God and how when he entered into the inner sanctuary he was met by an angel, the angel goes on to tell him how he will have a son, and how his son will make ready the way for Jesus. Now Zechariah being a priest would have been waiting for the coming messiah, but what are the first things out of his mouth after hearing the news, "but I am old". It just struck me how he totally misses the spiritual implications of the message and only sees his own physical weakness. He misses the fact that the saviour of the nation and mankind is soon to be coming and only sees his own limitations. How often do we do the same. How often does God ask something of me and I only see my limitations. I'm to tired, I'm too busy, I'm not quailfied (this is one that often comes up for us in missions), I'm too old, I'm too young. God wants us to see the spiritual implications of our "call", whatever that may be, and look past our physical weakness. As we step out and do things seeminly past what we see as possible in our own strenght and rely on his strength to pull us through it is then that we can truly say "your strength is made perfect in my weakness."