Strength in Impossible Places

 

Your bars shall be

       iron and bronze,

and as your days,

so shall your strength be.

         Deuteronomy 33.25

(Do we consider that

this hard thing,

this resistance

   and seeming impossible task

might instead be

         strength training?

When we respond to God,

each day God builds up

our reserves and endurance

         incrementally,

not just for now,

   but what is yet to come.

To see not difficulty,

           but opportunity.

Learning to trust God

      a little bit more.

Learning to run with Him.

Learning to lift

   the weight of His glory.

Leaning on Him.

As our days,

   so shall our strength be.)

O LORD,

May we not try to lift

  ourselves up by our bootstraps,

but turn to You

   and depend on Your strength.

Please help us to respond to You

      and follow You

      into what this day brings,

knowing that You are with us.

Build Your strength in us

   not just to get through this,

but to be faithful to

          Your calling for us.

Help us to exchange

       our inadequacies

       for Your strength.

May others see

    it is not in me,

                but You.

As our days,

  so shall Your strength be.