In one of our body shops this week I was having a really hard time catching my breath.  This caused me to not only slow down myself, but my whole team.  I wanted more than anything to keep going, but my lungs kept stopping me.  I was so frustrated that I was the week link holding my team back.  I pushed as far as I could but just didn’t have enough strength in me to keep going.  As I started to slow down Tim came up beside me and told everyone to go on ahead of me.  In this moment I felt defeated.  All I had left was 200 meters, but I couldn’t make it.

Just like this example I have had multiple times of defeat and failure.  I am learning that sometimes it necessary to not make it, to fall short, to stumble.  We are nothing in our own strength.  When we do life on our own we fail.  This is the way God intended it to be.

The joy of the Lord is our strength.  He gives us breath to fill our lungs and sustains our lives.  God is our ultimate power source of which we have full access.  In order to grab a hold of this we must know that we need God in everything we do. By ourselves we can’t make it. When we do life ourselves we fail, always.