April 26

Those of us who believe we are Christ’s, that our lives are not our own but His, have a heightened sense of purpose. We know what we were and we know what He’s called us to be, and there is a great gulf between those two diametrically opposed aspects of our lives.

As we once lived for ourselves, focused on the aspirations that we anticipated would make our lives into the epitome of our dreams and innermost longings, so now we focus on the performance of His purposes so others might know Him through us and believe.

We recognize our total inadequacy to be effective for His lofty calling upon our lives, but we also recognize His all-sufficiency to accomplish it through us. In Ephesians 3:16 we are assured that He will, “…grant you out of the riches of His glory to be strengthened in the inner man.”

What we have no power or ability to accomplish on our own, He will, through His own strength and glory, grant to us the empowerment to perform! We needn’t rely upon our own inadequacy because we are endued with His complete sufficiency! He asks nothing of us that He will not enable us to do!