A word of encouragement from Jarrett Morgan
“Then He answered and spake unto me saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubabbel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.” – Zechariah 4:6
I have heard it said that God will never call you to something that you can do on your own. He will always call you to those things that are “impossible,” on your own, that is. We see this theme over and over in Scripture. It was impossible for an old man and woman to have a child that was promised to them. It was impossible for a lowly shepherd to defeat a giant many times his size. It was impossible for an army of 300 to stand against a force as numerous as the sand on the seashore. Yet all of this was done. The giant fell, the promised child was conceived, and the armies of the enemy were defeated, “not by might, nor by power, but by [God’s] Spirit.”
Similarly today, we are called to an “impossible” life, a life in which we are commanded to live faithfully towards God. In a world where God is hated and rejected, where we are often times left alone because we live differently, where even our very hearts tempt us to betray God, we begin to understand that the Christian life is “impossible.” In some ways, it is meant to be that way because we are not to live according to our own strength, but in dependence on the almighty strength of God. We do not live for our own glory, but for God’s, and He is seeking people who will understand that “His strength is made perfect in our weakness.” He wants His people to stand for Him, “not by might… but by [His] Spirit.”
The burdens of this life that stem from hardships and strife lose their weight in the arms of Him who calmed the raging sea, who made the blind to see, and who rose from the grave victoriously, and through Him, we can live faithfully. We can fulfill those plans that God has for us, and we can realize that with God, “all things are possible.”