Month: January 2026

Honey Drop 62 – In Our Total Failure God is Our Strength

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“My flesh and my heart fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.” Psalm 73:26

The scene

A pilgrim stands on a ridge at dusk,
hands trembling, breath thin,
the day’s burdens pressing from the outside
and the day’s sorrows rising from the inside.
He tries to steady himself,
but the truth is too honest to hide:
his whole self is tired.
And in that moment of unguarded collapse,
he discovers he is not alone.

The comfort – the tension

The Tension:
We spend our lives dividing ourselves —
outer strength vs inner resolve,
body vs spirit,
flesh vs heart.
We treat them as two separate battlegrounds,
as if one can hold while the other breaks.
But the perfect tense tells the truth:
my whole self — inner and outer — fails.
This is the way it is.

The Comfort:

And yet, the collapse is not the end.
The same verb that names your failure
opens the door for God’s fullness.
He becomes the strength of the very heart that failed,
and the portion that cannot be taken,
even when everything else is gone.

The Lexical Brief

  • כָּלָה (kālah) — perfect tense: fails, has failed, will fail.
    Not hypothetical. Not “may.”
    This is the way it is.
    One verb covering the entire human person —
    inner and outer — as a single, unified collapse.
  • צוּר לְבָבִי (tsur levavi) — the Rock of my heart.
    Not a supplement.
    Not a boost.
    A replacement.
    God becomes what the heart cannot be for itself.
  • חֶלְקִי (chelqi) — my portion, my inheritance, my identity.
    When strength fails, identity does not.
    God Himself becomes the future.

The drop

My whole self — inner and outer — fails.
This is the way it is.
But God steps into the collapse
and becomes the strength of the very heart that broke.
He is my portion when I have nothing left,
my forever when my today runs out.

The Poetic Flash: Your failure is real. His portion is forever.