"I can do everything through Christ Jesus who strengthens me."
This verse doesn't say we can do almost everything. It has an absolute promise, everything, not just a kinda sorta. Everything we CAN DO through Christ. But are we doing it all for Christ?
I CAN DO anything I want, I can blow my virginity, I can kill someone, I could become a druggie. My mom constintly says "Everything is acceptable, but not evrything is benificial." Our world has so many pleasures to offer, and our common excuse is "I CAN DO IT, ITS MY LIFE." The point is we need to step out of the Me, mine, my life mentality and let it be He, Him, His life. When we look at this verse, we need to be saying "I WILL do Everything through Christ Jesus."
Our Motives for life need to be His. We need to leave the I CAN DO what God needs. And start declaring I WILL DO what God needs. Jesus is the one who gives us life, shouldn't we give him ours?
Matt
Scripture referance: Philippians 4:13
2 comments:
One can do everything through Christ Jesus in the strength provided therein. However, God doesn't provide strength for you to do things through, for matters against his well. Therefore God wouldn't give you strength to murder someone.
Which might have been what you said. Haha.
Correct, But if we look at it bibicaly God created us. We were created with reasoning power, so if we look at it God gave gave us the right to do all things. Except the part that you wrote, we cant do everything and serve God at the same time. But the answer to your comment is yes, he does give us power to do wrong things, each breathe you breathe is that power expressing itself. God doesn't agree with everything we do.
The main point in the note i wrote was we need to do all things according to His purpose not our own.
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