There’s Nothing I Can Do

noreply@blogger.com (CN) — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 05:25:00 +0000

One of the beautiful truths about the Gospel that I’m “re-learning” is the truth that I can do nothing apart from Christ. It is Christ who enabled me to choose him in the first place. It is Christ who brought/brings me to my knees in repentance. It is Christ who bore the weight of my sin so that I could be free from the burden of the Law. It is Christ who daily imbues me with the strength to deny myself and take up his cross out of deep gratitude and a desire to show my love for him.
In past months and years, I humbly admit that my focus was on me. I began to believe that what I did, said, or thought (on my power & strength) could have a sort of “divine” power over my situation or attitude. I removed God from the picture and poured all of me into trying to create a man that was pleasing to me, to others, to the world, and to God. It failed and I became self-centered, self-serving, and self-defeating.
I don’t write this to gain anyone’s pity or advice. No, I share this because I feel that I am just beginning to understand how free I really am of all that garbage... At 25 years old, a follower of Christ all my life, I am learning what it means to truly be free.

one man, one love

There’s Nothing I Can Do