Strength

Where do we find our strength? In the grace of Christ Jesus our Savior.

2Ti 2:1  Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

2Ti 2:2  And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.

2Ti 2:3  Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

2Ti 2:4  No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.

We are to BE STRONG IN THE GRACE that is in CHRIST JESUS.

Do we require strength to be followers of Christ?  Yes, we do need strength but it's not a strength that we can manufacture. The strength is found in the grace of our Savior. That alone is our strength. IF we try to make ourselves be strong we are going to fail. Just as if we try to save ourselves, we are going to fail. Our HOPE is in Christ, and that has to be all our HOPE, not just a tiny bit. We can't 95% hope in Christ and 5% hope in ourselves, it doesn't work that way. We absolutely cannot save ourselves, so to be strong in our own strength is to take partial credit for our salvation.

When we realize that we are dependent we must cling to our source of total strength and Satan has made it so that to be dependent is something we abhor. Helplessness is something we are to shrink from, not embrace.  We don't fault a baby for it's helplessness, yet we fault an adult who is mentally, physically, and emotionally sound if they claim helplessness.  We've taken this to mean we must be spiritually independent as well, we must grow to adulthood spiritually and not remain helpless children.  But spiritual adulthood is the maturity to recognize just how fully we are helpless to save ourselves, not us becoming independent and capable of saving ourselves, or contributing to our own salvation.

We truly do need the strength of the grace that is found in Christ Jesus.

We need to live in that grace, and KNOW that spiritually we are completely and utterly dependent upon our Savior for the strength that is eternal through His grace!

Where do we find our strength? In the grace of Christ Jesus our Savior.

2Ti 2:1  Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

2Ti 2:2  And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.

2Ti 2:3  Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

2Ti 2:4  No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.

We must endure HARDNESS as a GOOD SOLDIER of JESUS CHRIST.

We must BE soldiers of JESUS CHRIST, not soldiers of worldly lusts, worldly ideas, worldly independence outside of our Savior.  Soldiers FIRST and FOREMOST of Christ.

More tomorrow by the grace of our LORD and SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST.

AMEN!