"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me!” - Philippians 4:13 (NIV).
For a long time it was believed human beings could not dash 100 meter in less than 10 seconds! But come 1968 during the Mexico Olympics and an American sprinter, Jim Hines, completed the100-meters sprint in less than 10 seconds. Since that time dozen more have broken the 100 meter dash in less than ten seconds. In 2008 the Jamaican Sprinter Usain Bolt set a world record of completing the dash in 9.72 seconds!
You may wonder what had held back human beings until 1968 to beat the 100 meter dash in less than 10 seconds. Doubt. There are those who had long argued that the human body could not achieve that feat. However, then came Jim Jones who believed he could. He did not let doubts paralyze him. And once he broke that feat, more and more athletes also believed they could do it. Presently, the question is, if humans can do the 100 dash in less than 9 seconds! One day someone will come who believes that...
In our verse today Paul exhorts us with a stirring motivation. Overcome doubts and believe.There are indeed those mountains that come our away and seem insurmountable. Everyone says it is impossible. But here is a good word of hope. Do not doubt. Believe you "can do all things in Christ Jesus!" Let no doubts stop you.
Prayer for today: Lord Father God of Abraham, maker of heaven and earth, I commit to you all my tasks and desires, knowing that whatever stands in my way, I can do all things because of Christ who lives in me!
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19/04/2024 - 20/04/2024 All day“See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland” ( Isaiah 43:19).
Just before fire was unleashed down on Sodom and Gommorah, Lot was told to pack up with his wife and two daughters and leave their homestead. Now, once out of danger, “But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt” ( Gen 19:26). Perhaps here we might pause and ask why she was bothered to look back.
Of course it could have been that old “curiosity killed a cat” mistake! Yet, it could also have been Lot’s wife was not sure where she was going and longed for her old life back. This is a common error. There was nothing stirring to look back. Just before Lot’s neighbors had attacked his house eager to rape his visitors. “They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them” ( vv 5). Was there anything worth looking back to!
The case of Lot’s wife could be anyone else’s experience. The Lord has plucked you out of some mess. You have been delivered to a new life. Yet, somehow you decide to look back, as though there was anything good and worth longing for. Sometimes it is a bitter past you have been delivered from. Other than rejoice in your new blessings you keep being drawn back!
A wise caution goes, “As a dog returns to its vomit, so fools repeat their folly” ( Proverbs 26:11). If the Lord has just led you out of a certain mess why look back like it was much better! Instead look ahead, for “he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters, who drew out the chariots and horses, the army and reinforcements together, and they lay there, never to rise again, extinguished, snuffed out like a wick: Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past” ( vv 17- 18).
Prayer today: Lord Father God of Abraham, maker of heaven and earth, I thank you for delivering me from the darkness of the past and I look forward to a bright new future in you, this I pray in Jesus’ name!
