With God, it is like we are CHEATING
There are simply so many verses that teach us that with God all things are possible. There is no challenge, no trial, no struggle, no addiction, no pain, no challenge or fear that we are unable to face and to endure and overcome - why? Because of the God Factor . One of those verses jumped out at me this morning. And sadly, due to the way Calvinists have misused this verse, I have probably avoided it. That is another topic but the Calvinist doctrine of Total Depravity (which to them means utter and total inability and deadness - think Luther's, The Bondage of the Will ), causes Reformed Christians to misread much of their New Testaments. But to get back to today's blog post, the verse I am referring to is Philippians 2:13: "...for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure." This might be one of the most encouraging verses in the entire New Testament when we think about its implications in the life of a believer. We know that when we ar...