So today I am completely exhausted and I'm coming from a long week of life. Anywho tonight on my drive home I realized something, in Philippians 4:13 it says "I can do everything through him who gives me strength" I have used this as a mantra when I get scared but I'm psyching myself up to do something. I thought of it in the terms of ok Jesus give me strength you just haven't given me enough yet for me to do this task. I need just a little bit more. Well I've come into a new way of thinking. My prayer has become Jesus help me realize that you have given me the strength to do this already and let me abide in your strength.
It's not that I didn't have the strength before and then miraculously I had it a second later, but I had it all the time but I was only relying on myself to get the job done and Jesus is only there to give me that extra little help when I need it. However this is sooo wrong and I finally understand that, Jesus is there the entire time giving us strength and doing the whole job with us. Every struggle, every hardship, everything we do easy or hard, fun or tedious Jesus is there and all we have to do is abide in him and life is so much easier and not scary. In fact (in the word if one of my professors) its joyful.
Seriously realize not that you need more strength or help but accept the help that is freely given to you because as Jesus says in 2 Corinthians 12:9 "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness" And that is the awesome power of Jesus. Rejoice in your weakness because it is Christ's strength is being made known through you.
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