True Strength

My favorite movies or documentaties are about people who are able to do amazing things at such great odds. Likewise, the people whom America votes for in tv reality shows like X-Factor, American Idol, America's got talent, So You Think You Can Dance, etc. are those who have an amazing story that goes along with their talent. Nearly everyone faces adversity in life at some point, it is these stories we relate with and are inspired by to continue on. Our history proves that humans are more capable than any other creation in handling pain. Those of us who have endured much and yet overcame on what seems our own, can have the hardest time relying on God. Our past successes cause us our current failures. We are so use to making things work on our own. Yet, it probably never seems like enough. We seem to always fall just short. Things just never seem to work out as planned. Many of us have come to the place recently where we have reached our boiling point, the place where we finally give up, where we realize we can not handle what we are facing on our own. God is teaching us how to lean on Him for strength for there is so much more than can be accomplished through Him, than separately. He doesn't just want us to turn to Him when we have no place else to turn, but every moment of every day in everything, He wants to be Lord. The forces behind the circumstances that have brought us to this place of humility cannot be dealt with in our own power. These forces are greater than any natural human power can give. It is like the servant Gehazi when he saw the massive army surrounding him, then his spiritual eyes were opened, and he saw the Angelic host that was so much greater surrounding His enemy. God is opening our spiritual eyes to see true reality the spiritual battle that each of us face, and that we have much more for us than against us. We must now submit our circumstances into His hands so that true strength from above can come. We are truly strong in the Lord when we are no longer moved by man or our situations, but by the hand of God. Then God can in all His mighty power can move through us and His great exploits can be seen throughout the earth.