Weak-Willed

Our wills are not strong enough. The turn of each year’s calendar pages prove it. There are systems in place to increase our doubt that we can overcome, like 12 step programs that make us confess every time we introduce ourselves that we are alcoholics, or whatever other version of failure we wish we could escape. There are other systems in place that will try to profit from our lack of will power, like contracts that offer a free month of exercise in January that we keep paying for through the year, even after we stop exercising after February.

The Spirit of our God is strong enough, though. He is able to cause it to be true that we really can do all things by His power. He is able to give us the strength to change the courses of our lives as we listen to Him and obey His direction. He is able to give us the courage to face anyone and anything with hope of success and protection.

The strength that we need to keep producing is the power to keep turning our hearts and minds and lives and relationships back over to His mastery and His love. When I let Him work in me to decide to gain strength from Him, He works in me to give me that strength. Keep saying, “Yes!”

So then, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now even more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God who is working in you, enabling you both to will and to act for His good purpose.
(Philippians 2:12-13 Holman Christian Standard Bible ©®)