Something I've noticed about people today is they want solutions without the work. They want answers without effort. They pretty much want someone to do all the hard stuff for them. This is a huge flaw in the way that we think.
The amount of strength that you obtain is equivalent to the amount of trust you have. Trust in yourself, trust in others, but if you want eternal strength, trust in God. This seems to be what people can't put together. Everyone wants to be strong & courageous. Talented & wealthy. Famous & needed. But they keep putting their trust in things that will fail. Material things that are temporal rather than eternal.
When you have a firm foundation such as this faith, you can start building things like strength, patience, love, peace, kindness, generosity, justice, and power on top of it with full knowledge that you won't fail.
This is kind of the biblical version of "if you believe you can, you will, and if you believe you can't, you won't." But now there's actually a belief in something other than yourself.
It's the moments that I remember God's plan is better than my own when I have the most strength. When the burden of life is lifted and I can focus on the needs of the people around me. That is why we're here, isn't it?
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