I can’t do it. Not a good statement to start out the New Year, huh? Have you ever heard this? Or, have you ever said this yourself? I think we all have. Maybe we’ve heard it too often. Certainly there are limits to what we can do. But how many times do we make this statement without finding out what those limits are?
I know there are things that I, myself, have thought that I couldn’t do. The reality is, though that I didn’t really know. And the reason I didn’t know was because I had never even tried. So, I really just thought that I couldn’t. I think this was the case when I was in wrestling in high school. I often let my own mental limitations rule and affect my reality. Not just on the wrestling mat, but also in training and in practice. I would often get overwhelmed by the image of what I had to do. We would set off on a run for several miles or a set number of minutes. Although I wouldn’t say it out loud, I would often think it mentally—I can’t do it. Without realizing it, I was placing a lot of limits on myself without realizing it. How am I ever going to find out what I can do if I don’t even have the courage to try? So, now looking back I didn’t really find out how good I could have become because of my own mental limitations.
I suppose we often say ‘we can’t do it’ because we lack the courage to find out. Sometimes we’re too afraid of failure. Failure is going to happen, though. I’ve learned, though, that I would fail in a gigantic blaze of glory than fail because I never tried. Within reason, of course. But at least then I can walk away knowing that I made my best effort and I have nothing to feel bad about. I believe even other people will respect that. They may walk away thinking, “Man that guy went down in a horrendous ball of flames. But you know what, he gave it all he had.”
Thankfully, I feel I’ve learned since high school to take some risks in finding out what I can do. I’ve taken some of the mental limits off of my thinking. Even though I can still push myself further and find out other areas where I can discover my limitations, I don’t have the same mindset I used to have. I now know that I can work on my own car if I have to, or I can run farther than I often think I can. Sometimes I hear people say to me now, “Oh, I could never do that.” Or, “Oh, I wish I could do that.” I find myself thinking, “How do you know you can’t? Have you ever even tried?”
I’ve found that in many areas I still haven’t ran into my limits. I find this exciting. Think of that. We can keep pushing our limits in different areas of our lives and getting better. Part of the joy of life is finding out and discovering how far we can go.
I’m going to start out with an obvious verse here. Philippians 4:13 “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” We all know that, even in the natural sense, we can many times accomplish more than we think we can. Just think, though, of all that we could accomplish with the power of God behind us. Imagine the creator of the universe backing us up in the things we try to accomplish.
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Of course anything that God has put His stamp of approval on, He will empower us to do it. This is the confidence we have in Him. This gives us courage and confidence when we know that He is behind us. Luke 10:19 says, “Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.” Jesus was speaking here to the disciples. This was after sending out the 70 disciples into various cities. They came back with joy realizing they had power over the enemy. Jesus confirmed for them that He had given them the power over the enemy. We can know this truth today. The spiritual battles that we face now, He has given us the power to have victory in them. So, we certainly know that we can have victory in our spiritual battles that we face, because this verse says we have been given victory over all the power of the enemy.
Mark 11:23 “For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.” We often underestimate the power we have in Christ. It’s like having an arsenal of weapons and not realizing it, or never using them. Jesus was speaking here again to His disciples. Again He emphasized that He had empowered them to do the things He commanded them to do. I believe the reason Jesus told them these things was because He didn’t want them to cower in fear at the things they were facing. He wanted them to face head-on the obstacles they were facing with courage and confidence, knowing that they weren’t on their own. God was there to back them up. I’ve come to believe that if God tells me to do something, that I can do it. He’s not going to load me up with a bunch of expectations without giving me the ability to accomplish it.
So, in this upcoming year, let’s take the limits off. Let’s find out what we can do, and find out what we can do for the Lord. With Him behind us, backing us, there’s not telling the things we could accomplish. It’s the limitations we place on ourselves many times that are the most limiting. We might just find out, though, that we can accomplish more than we ever thought possible.
Philippians 4:13 “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”
Luke 10:19 says, “Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.”
Mark 11:23 “For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.”