There’s a phrase that just drives me up a wall when I hear it.
“I can’t!”
When someone says that, my first instinct is to write them off as either a loser, or someone who just isn’t trying. But then the Lord pointed out that many times it’s true. We can’t! Coming to that realization in many areas of our lives is exactly what God expects of us. Just as long as we don’t stop there!
The fact is that in so many areas, we can’t. We can’t overcome addictions. We can’t break generational curses. We can’t forgive people like we ought. We can’t love like we should. But God can! God can give us the power to overcome addictions! God can break generational curses! God can give us the ability to forgive! God can transform our hearts to love! God can, and does, take us so far beyond our limitations that He alone can get the credit!
When Moses told God that he couldn’t speak before Pharaoh, Scripture tells us that God got angry at him. After knowing God all his life, and standing before a burning bush, Moses was still so wrapped up in his limitations that he couldn’t see that if God called him to do something, God would give him the power to accomplish it!
We see the same concept repeated constantly in Scripture. Abraham, Joshua, Gideon, Esther, Daniel & Friends, Peter. Everyone of these people were called far beyond what they could do. When we read their stories, we don’t see what they accomplished, we see what God accomplished in spite them!
God calls each of us to something far greater than we can ever dream! We have to acknowledge that we can’t, but we’re willing! From there God takes over, and shows His power and glory to the world through our insignificant lives!
