No Challenge Too Great

I can do all thingsthrough Christ who gives me strength. (Philippians 4:13)

I was doing something this past week which wouldn’thave been a big deal sixteen months ago. But as you know, since April 1 of lastyear, I have been defeated and broken in more ways than one.

But there I was that day last week, wondering if I wasup to the physical challenge that I put in front of me, when the above versecame into my head. I knew this verse, I’d heard it many times and in manyplaces. So where was it over the past sixteen months? I don’t know. Butsuddenly there it was and there I was meeting what should have been a minortask, had I been as physically fit as I had been in the past.

God is good and it is only through the strength ofJesus Christ that I have made it this far.

More next week about this teeny challenge. For today,I look at that picture above, and think, was that really me? Talk about achallenge, climbing and hiking miles through Hell’s Gate in Kenya, seven yearsago. I couldn’t do that now. Or could I?