i am still studying about these scriptures: 2 Cor 12:9-10
as i began to study yesterday, i found that grace means: (#5485) lovingkindness, favor, good will.
and sufficient means: (#714) to be possessed of unfailing strength, to suffice, to be enough, contented, satisfied.
so, in fact, verse 9 can be read: "My lovingkindness is enough unfailing strength for you." makes more sense to me like that.
But Paul is referring to receiving some awesome revelation from the Lord and then receiving a "thorn in the flesh," that satan's friends have sent to "buffet" him, but that he gloried in his infirmities because God's strength is made perfect in weakness.
He said a MOUTHFUL here!
There are some commentaries that i am reading on these. one i call "the 3 guys" said:
"the Lord--Christ. escape from the cross is not to be sought even indirectly from satan (Lu 4:7)...in other words, we are not to ask satan to spare us in the midst of these trials.
