God's grace is all-sufficient for us Christians (2 Corinthians 12:9). God did not take away Paul's thorn in the flesh after he pleaded with God. We are unsure of what the thorn in the flesh was for Paul. His thorn was a great torment to him in every setting.
We can identify with Paul. But grace is power. There is nothing like God's grace in all the world. Grace can raise a spiritual dead person to life. Grace is a supernatural power. Grace helps us through the difficulties of our lives. Paul goes through much suffering as described in 2 Corinthians 11 but he never asked God to take it away from him. In 2 Corinthians 12, he asks God to take the unknown thorn away from him and we can all identify with him in this.
The necessity of a thorn is a necessity of God's grace. We can testify about God's grace in our thorny trails. We always need God's grace in our lives. God's grace is a great light that shines out the darkness. We do not experience God's grace when we think we do not need it. We do not experience God's grace when we are strong in ourselves. The grace of God is given to us when we are weak. We ought to boast about our weaknesses because Christ's power rests on us. We ought to pray, "Lord, do not let me focus on anything but Jesus. Allow me to focus on all on Him and not my trails. Amen."
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