Father, I Can’t Do This

“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Phil. 4:13

“Father, I can’t do this,” I told the Lord.

I was being totally honest, and the Lord knew it. We both knew it. I just couldn’t do it. Not what He’d given me to do. Too much. Too hard. Too needing a break. Too not having had a vacation in years. More than I could handle. Impossible.

Almost instantly, these words came to me.

“But I can do it in you, with you, through you, and for you,” I told the Lord.

That was the plain truth....