Everybody wants strength, but few want the process that creates it.

Main message: God uses weakness, insults, hardship, persecution and difficulties to produce true strength in believers; instead of avoiding weakness we should recognize and embrace it because "when I am weak, then I am strong."

Key points:

• The preacher uses a "what's in the box" metaphor to say the box contains things people don't want—chiefly weakness.
• Weakness is defined as being made feeble, and people naturally resist it.
• The box also holds insults, hardship, persecution and difficulties—trials that shape us.
• The quoted verse ("For I delight in weakness... For when I am weak, then I am strong") presents the paradox that God's power is shown in our weakness.
• The message ends with a call to personal reflection: what gift has God given you that makes you weak?

Scriptures mentioned: 2 Corinthians 12:10