At a time when we are seeing Hebrews 12:12-13 come alive particularly among leaders in ministry in our nation, it is important to shed some light on the matter of our expectations in ministry or service we claim being called to by the Lord. Our text says

So be made strong even in your weakness by lifting up your tired hands in prayer and worship. And strengthen your weak knees, for as you keep walking forward on God’s paths all your stumbling ways will be divinely healed! – TPT
 
Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; and make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed. – KJV

Hebrews 12:2 sets the context that led to this admonition with an untoward ending.

We look away from the natural realm and we focus our attention and expectation onto Jesus who birthed faith within us and who leads us forward into faith’s perfection. His example is this: Because his heart was focused on the joy of knowing that you would be his, he endured the agony of the cross and conquered its humiliation, and now sits exalted at the right hand of the throne of God! – TPT
 
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. – KJV

The heart of the gospel of grace is the cross, and from these scriptures, there is the shame of the Cross.  This is attested to by the two leading apostles to whom the gospel was committed.

Paul spoke severally as evident from

Romans 1:16 (KJV) – For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Admonished his son in the faith Timothy:

Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God; 9who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, but is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel: whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles. For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. 2 Timothy 1:8-12 (KJV)

He then warned the Galatians believers:

I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel. Galatians 1:6 (KJV)

Peter the apostle to the circumcision spoke in the same vein

Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf. 1 Peter 4:16 (KJV)

The gospel that has been communicated to many believers and is still being preached today, is it the same gospel that these apostles preached? Where did the glamour that characterizes the preaching of this other gospel come from; and for which reason many have been led to believe the glamorous gospel is the right gospel; and when they do not see the glamour, they fall away?

This is food for thought for you beloved saint and you should consider whether you are believing the right gospel, for the Lord is at hand. Selah.