by Pastor Simon

I am strong for all things in the One who constantly infuses strength in me.

Philippians 4:13 - Wuest's Expanded Translation

Are you finding yourself weary in the roles or tasks you have? It could be because you're trying to live and work in your own strength! As Christians we need to be living in a flow of Christ's strength. We need to be going to the Lord in prayer, laying down our burdens at His feet and seeking His strength. The Lord has given us a precious promise, "Cast your burden on the Lord and He will sustain you". Psa.55:22.

As a young Christian I took a lot of falls by not acknowledging where my strength had to come from. Even later, I was reading what Paul said about where he was drawing strength from and realised how much I was living in my own strength. Thinking about it, I could see what a strain it was putting on me. What a release it was to change! I resorted to the Lord's strength. As a result, my daily weariness lifted away! Life's pressures had pushed me apart from residing in the Vine, Jesus Christ. When I set myself back in the Vine I experienced His strength at work in me sustaining me. Joh.15:5.

If there was ever a Christian who might have been qualified to do all things in his own strength it was Paul. Paul seemed to have everything going for him in the natural. Nevertheless, as he testifies in his letter to the Philippians, he didn't attempt to do all things that way, he did them instead in the strength of the One who constantly infused strength in him. May you live that way too. Ask the Lord for His sustaining strength. May God by His Spirit make you strong in the Lord! Phil.3:4-6, Eph.6:10.

Live life in Christ's strength!

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