John 9-11

John 9:33

If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.

How foolish I am to think I can do anything myself, in my own strength and abilities. No wonder the pharisees threw the healed blind man out. This simple statement cut right through them and they recognized the truth of it. They trusted in their own wisdom and power and in their keeping of their rules. They couldn't even come close to the miracles Jesus was doing because they were without God.

The converse of this is also a great truth. With God anything can be done. How often I don't even attempt to try something because I fail to recognize God will give me the empowerment for a task. Nooooooo. I'm always seeing things as having to be done within my own strengths and abilities. I limit God working in my life when I don't look to His power.

May I be humble enough to know I cannot do anything on my own and wise enough to recognize there is no such thing as impossible to God no matter what worldly wisdom is telling me.