Favour in the unfavourable

For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
2 Corinthians 12:10 ESV

Insults are unfavourable opinions. Hardships are unfavourable circumstances. Persecutions come from those who are unfavourably disposed towards us.

None of these determine the favour of God that is toward us in Christ. Even if everything else was against us he would still be for us.

When we try to find the strength to deal with all these things within ourselves we, like Paul, can find we fall short. But our loving heavenly father wants us to know that no matter what or who sets itself against us there is a grace in God that is sufficient for the moment. The more exceptional the circumstance the more exceptional the grace.

When we find our strength and our value in him it is always enough.