Various Thoughts.

II Corinthians 12:9; Philipians 3:1-11.
Boasting in our weakness

“I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.”
“I consider [my profit] rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him.”

We ought to boast in others strengths because then when God triumphs, it makes him greater. Also, I think our weaknesses that Paul speaks of are what might be seen as our strengths in the worlds eyes (though not always). It does not mean the talents we have not been gifted with, but rather the things we struggle with – our secret desires and wicked passions. We ought to boast in them because those are the things God overcomes in us!

The Canaanites were a strong people. Israel was not a very strong people. So not only should the Israelites boast in their weakness, but in the strength of their enemy, which they have overcome. Jesus was tempted as we are, and not just to eat and jump and rule, as the famous temptations passage records. He lived as a man in a body and he was offended and ridiculed and rejected. He must have been tempted to lust and fight and self-depricate. The stronger the enemy or the temptation, which are synonymous, the stronger God is.