Psalms 31:24 MKJV

(24)  Be strong, and He will make your heart stronger, all you who hope in Jehovah.

It does take that step of faith. Where strength is needed and where provision is required it is necessary for the weak to say, “I’m strong” and for the poor to say,” I’m rich”- not for any other reason than because of what the Lord has done for us. This will most definitely be an extraordinary effort, but the moment a step is taken towards the answer in Him, strength comes and hope is renewed. For the weak to just declare what seems to be so obvious, weakness or lack, even with the intension of honesty and responsibility, there is no way for there to be any progress made towards a solution.

For the heart that has hope in it for something better and even the best, until that end is affirmed and rehearsed in the mind and mouth, it will never get a chance. God’s response is always to a display of strength towards Him, no matter how small that may be. Every effort exerted towards Him is rewarded with further strength.

I’ve always wondered a bit about the many scriptures that tell us to be strong. When someone is overwhelmed by life and surrounding difficulties, being strong isn’t even an available option, or so it would seem. You might think that strength should be administered rather than generated, that God might just zap you with a big jolt of strength in order for you to do anything at all. But, He provides a promise and a vision of who He is and what He’s capable of and then leaves it to us to ‘be strong’. Without the slightest effort on our part to be what He said we could be in Him, there isn’t an opportunity for His strength to be ours. However, as soon as He’s given the slightest opening through a door we’ve exerted even the slightest effort to open for Him, He pours into our hearts with more than enough strength to overcome in every situation. Our will just needs a display of ‘be-strongedness’ in order for Him to gain access with His more than sufficient supply of real strength, real power, and real life is in Him. He won’t push past any lack of will or desired on our part in order to impose His provision upon us. However, with just the flip of a switch, the plugging into an outlet, and the stepping into a river we’ll experience a flood of light and exceeding power as we’re swept away in a river of life that is more than abundant.

There will no doubt be something to climb today, something that will require more strength than we might feel we possess at the moment. Before we entered into Christ through His blood, there would have been no hope for making this climb, but for any man that is in Christ, hope has been made alive in a whole new world of victorious opportunity. The simplest resulting act on this hope, the smallest step towards what He’s promised activates His life within and no mountain is too steep or tall, and nothing is impossible before this display of belief. He will provide the real strength and resurrection power, all He’s waiting for is for us to just ‘be’ what He already said we are- strong.

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