2 Corinthians 12 "Weakness is Good"

I have heard many times that weakness is good and God works better through those who are weak and when you are weak you are stronger in God, it makes it easier to trust in God.  I believe some of these comments have arrived from this chapter in 2 Corinthians.  But what I am reading is different from what I have heard from others.  Others have given me the impression that weakness is good and it is what leads to being strong in Christ.  From what I am gathering from Paul I believe that is a valid interpretation but if someone didn't read this themselves they would not understand the chapter the way it was ment to be.  I think Paul is more so saying that strength in God is brought from our response to our weakness, in that we need to embrase it, go against the worlds view that weakness is not appealing.  In reality there are few if any things more humbling than embrasing your weakness and in doing so showing the power of God.  

If that doesn't do it for you think about it this way.  Jesus Christ, God in human flesh, needed to become nothing so he could save us from our sins, the same God that spoke everything into existance needed and chose to become nothing to save us, why do we think we can do anything without embrasing what makes us nothing.