Sometimes, I wonder why hard things have to be so ridiculously hard.  I mean, why is it that “doing the right thing” inevitably means doing something that just doesn’t come naturally?  Why is it so difficult?

It’s easy to forget the obvious.  Check out Philippians 4:13—and read it for real:

“I can do everything through him who gives me strength.”

Chances are you’ve had that verse memorized for as long as you can remember.  So take a moment and think about it.

Fact: We are human, and we’re pretty puny.  In the grand scheme of things, there really isn’t that much we can do on our own.  Make that nothing we can do on our own.

Fact: Christ is perfect—he defines perfect!  What’s more, he has complete perfection and complete power.  You could try to refute it, but you’d be existing solely on the breath given to you by the Almighty God…which really wouldn’t help prove your point.

Fact: When we accept Christ, we accept him into us. Think about how radical that is: Christ lives in you so that when God looks at us, he doesn’t see who we used to be.  He sees his Son—he sees perfection.

Conclusion?

Most of us don’t realize who we really are.

You know what?  You can do everything, anything, through Christ who gives you strength.  Don’t try to put a limit on it—because remember, that would be putting a limit on Christ.  Telling the Creator of the universe that he has limits is likely a losing battle on your part.

On the downside, the truth doesn’t leave much room for excuses.  Human nature says to shirk blame—our problems really aren’t our responsibility; it’s because we’re human, or because it’s too hard to change, or because it’s just become habit.

You may be human, but God isn’t.

So I ask you: If we would throw ourselves completely into the hands of our omnipotent God, how hard would “hard things” really be?

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