If you are just reading this for the first time today, you may want to go back to the past several Thursday's and start there and come to here as this is part four of a series of posts.
Today I'll talk about my 3rd of the Four Unused Smooth Stones (FUSS) that I carry in my pouch as I depart the battlefield after the living stone has already slain my Goliath (sin). That 3rd stone is the Strength stone. Of course it starts from the source, and that leads to Philippians 4:13 (NIV):
“I can do everything through him who gives me strength”
Yes in deed! Very STRONG words when it comes to just how strong God made me. It is that very strength which enabled a boy, David, to defeat the giant warrior Goliath. It is the strength that comes from Faith, and is exercised when one has the Courage of that faith so to do (as David did while the entire assembled Israelite army did not).
It is strength though that isn't about us. It is NOT for our gain, our benefit, our glory.
Romans 15:1 (NIV) reminds us: "We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves"
God has equipped us, made us strong, made us capable of doing EVERYTHING, so the stone reminds me each day to ask myself, am I DOING EVERYTHING I can through him who gives me strength? I have a long way to go in that regard.
Next week: The Love stone.
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