Power of Christ

It’s so easy to lose sight of what REALLY works for us in our lives. We often get caught up with life and the daily stresses it tends to greet us with and we try to battle through them alone. We forget that we have a power within us that conquers all of life’s battles. That is the power of Christ! We can’t do it without Him.


Wait…I stand corrected….

We can do it without him, but we can’t do it successfully without Him. This power within us is taken for granted all too often. Many of us don’t want to be dependent on anything and take on the world alone to prove our independence and in the end we are empty handed. What we don’t realize is that we are already dependent on Christ. It is through Him that we find our true strengths. It is through Him that we are able to return to our Heavenly Father. It is through Him and only Him that we are free from the bonds of life and find true and everlasting happiness. Any other form of happiness is short-lived and is accompanied with some sort of undesired consequence.

While we are enduring hardship and suffering we often question the whereabouts of our Savior in our lives and the blessings he supposed to shower us with. It is during these times we must open our blinded eyes and embrace this concept of dependency on Christ. He wants to help, He wants to bless us. But we must submit ourselves to him and forfeit our worldly desires and replace them with the desire to serve Him. We can’t call the shots. We have to allow him to call the shots. “I’ll do whatever you want me to Lord but I just can’t do this.” You are not truly willing to do whatever it takes if you set guidelines to accommodate your desires. If you can’t rid yourself of any resistance in your heart then you are not willing to serve Him.

The Lord never leaves our side. If we can just turn to the right direction we will find Him there waiting.

“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me” (Philippians 4:13).