{"id":2677,"date":"2020-11-01T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2677"},"modified":"2020-11-01T12:05:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T19:05:49","slug":"whose-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2677","title":{"rendered":"Whose Strength?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Continuing our meditations on my friend Randy Raysbrook’s “psalm:”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I say, \u201cIf I am strong enough, I can achieve great things.\u201d
Lord, you say, \u201cReally?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Line 1 sounds good. We\u2019re supposed to be strong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201dBe strong in the Lord…\u201d (Ephesians 6.10)<\/em>
\u201cTrain yourself for godliness.\u201d (1 Timothy 4.7)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it\u2019s not my strength, it\u2019s his:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201dBe strong in the Lord and the power of his might.\u201d (Ephesians 6.10)<\/em>
\u201cI can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.\u201d (Philippians 4.13)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And even when I\u2019m strong, I<\/em><\/strong> don\u2019t achieve great things. We<\/em><\/strong> achieve great things together: I, the Lord, with the community. Football is a good metaphor here. Americans like their heroes, the individual stars, which, in football, is usually the quarterback. But the quarterback, no matter how good he is, by himself, is useless. He doesn\u2019t block for himself. He doesn\u2019t throw the passes to himself. He has to have a very good team around him to succeed, including the coaches who make everything work well together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clemson University won its game yesterday without Heisman Trophy candidate Trevor Lawrence who was diagnosed with COVID last week. Clemson won not only because the backup quarterback is talented in his own right but also because of the whole team. The rest of the offense. The defense. Trevor doesn\u2019t achieve great things. The team does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us… (Ephesians 3.20, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the LORD of hosts. (Zechariah 4.6, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He told me, My grace is enough; it’s all you need. My strength comes into its own in your weakness… (2 Corinthians 12.9, MSG)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continuing our meditations on my friend Randy Raysbrook’s “psalm:” I say, \u201cIf I am strong enough, I can achieve great things.\u201dLord, you say, \u201cReally?\u201d Line 1 sounds good. We\u2019re supposed to be strong. \u201dBe strong in the Lord…\u201d (Ephesians 6.10)\u201cTrain yourself for godliness.\u201d (1 Timothy 4.7) But it\u2019s not my strength, it\u2019s his: \u201dBe strong … Continue reading Whose Strength?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-Hb","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2682,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions\/2682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}