What God and You Can Do!
Do you want to launch this New Year with a better attitude? Be content, hopeful, optimistic, cheerful and refreshing to others, come what may? Do great things for Christ? Win souls? Reach teens? Care for an invalid or a bevy of preschoolers?With God, nothing is impossible; and He can display His strength through you.
By ourselves, we cannot influence lives, overcome bad habits, build churches, convert souls, manage our tempers, appetites, or finances in a godly way. There’s nothing we can do for Christ in our own power.
But Jesus and us-well, that’s a different story. We can proclaim with Paul, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” (Philippians 4:13).
Paul wasn’t talking about preaching to vast crowds, planting large churches, or wielding great influence, though God also allowed him to do those things. He was saying, “I can fulfill God’s will through Christ’s strength. I can do whatever He commands; indeed, I can even be content in chains.”
Impossible Quotes
This secret has fueled the lives of God’s workers in every generation. Thomas à Kempis, the medieval German monk, wrote, “O Lord, let that which seems naturally impossible to me become possible through Your grace.”
