True Strength, Part 2

"where has your faith brought you?"

i'm still talking to you at this moment, aren't i? my faith isn't merely a coping tool. i'm still wondering how God wrote and continues to write it. for honestly, i tend to doubt what i know and stay stuck in a pit of frustration. yet somehow throughout the years, God keeps calling me and showing the real delight to be found in Him. i can only attribute it to Christ's work and His giving of His Spirit to keep me alive, well and growing and strong until the day He calls me to Him.

the common human wisdom that strength comes from within, from the "indomitable human spirit" falls flat in comparison to this infinite wellspring of life. biblical truth states that strength enters from without, wells up within, and flows constantly out independently of what we do, not as a result of something we artificially manufacture through some sort of ritual or meditation or heightened state of enlightenment:

"For this reason I bow my knees before the Father... that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith--that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God."

the greatest strength comes from comprehending the infinite love of Christ. the fullness of God... I can have the fullness of God. My God, what am I saying? can i really have this? can i just believe it to be true... and that's it? is it really that simple?

to be continued: "but practically...?"