And all of them conspired together to come and attack Jerusalem Judah
It never ceases to amaze me our willingness to just give up and say, “I can’t”. We come across a problem and instead of putting our heads down and tackling it we give up. We want to sit around making excuses for why the task is impossible. We come up with some pretty convincing arguments to why we shouldn’t even try; so we don’t. What happened to the idea I was ingrained with growing up, “where there is a will, there is a way!”? It goes right along with another quote I was reminded of over and over, “With God all things are possible!” (Mark 10:27 ).
Have we lost our deep down desire to overcome adversity? Do we live in such a society that everything has been handed to us so much, that we have lost the ability to do things for ourselves? Sometimes we are faced with obstacles in our way that are bigger than us, obstacles that can only be overcome through God’s intervention. I’m not just talking about those times! It seems to me that when any little complication arises, when life isn’t easy, and things start to get a little messy we are ready to jump ship; we are all too ready to just give up and give in.
In the Bible we are given many examples of men and women who showed true grit. When things got tough, they turned to God and got tougher. When things got “impossible” they turned to God, fasted, prayed through sweat and tears and saw the impossible made possible by God. We can’t even seem to overcome inconvenient, and there is something terribly wrong with that. God never changes, we know from His word He is the same always and forever (Heb. 13:8). It seems the only things that have changed are the attitudes and the faith of His people.
So what will it be? Will you overcome? Or will you just go with the flow and say, “I can’t”?
