I have read, memorized, quoted, and had some Scriptures quoted to me so many times they tend to have become “common place.”
They rest in the back of my mind as “words.” And they stay there as “words” until I really need them. Then those words (those promises) come alive and become exactly what I need in that moment. One such verse dominated last weekend.
“For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength.” [Philippians 4:13 NLT]
You never know how much you need those words to be true, alive, empowering, enabled by the Holy Spirit of God until you find you cannot do something in your own strength.
I was not sure I could do the eulogy and salvation message at Patty’s Celebration of Life. Just writing and reading what I wrote left me emotional. It was not easy, but I have done the “not easy” things all my life.
I knew I could this “not easy” thing … BUT ONLY BECAUSE … I can do everything, even the “not easy” things, knowing that my LORD and Savior will give me the strength to do them.
And He did. Amen
