God's Love May Be To Keep You Weak

Paul, the great apostle, was given a "thorn in the flesh," a messenger of Satan, to torment him and to keep him from becoming conceited because of surpassingly great revelations that he received from God (2 Cor 12:7). Despite endless speculation, this thorn is not specifically known. God's specific intended purpose was to keep Paul humble and weak, so weak, that his only recourse is to rely entirely on God's sufficient grace (2 Cor 12:9).

Every Christian who has any degree of self-awareness is surely conscious of some unbearable thorn in their own flesh, which feels like torture and which thus weakens and frustrates them.
Common thorns might be laziness, lukewarmness, lust, licentiousness and loneliness, from which all Christians experience to varying degrees. My particular thorn might be anger, exasperation, impatience and the incessant desire to retaliate against others--like Dirty Harry. I know that apart from marveling and grasping at the glory of the gospel of God's grace (Ac 20:24), I am completely helpless and powerless to restrain myself. Thank God for such a thorn that is surely nothing but his magnificent and marvelous grace to me.

What might be your particular thorn in the flesh given to you by God to weaken you so that you might rely only on the all sufficient grace of God?