Doing things through Christ

I was always strongly influenced by this concept that 'we must do all things through Christ'. Once we started to carry out things without Him, we tend to forget of His teachings when we are dealing with things in the world as the custom of the world easily comes in to our mind first. For example, we often said to ourselves, 'Let's just don't be ridiculous, it's impossible' when a new and difficult situation knocked the door. Just like the army of Israel who had to deal with Goliath, the giant......they all shook their heads and said, 'This is impossible.' Only a child named David who was brave enough to stand before the giant because he didn't see the giant in his eyes, instead he put his eyes on the Almighty God, the God of Israel, King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

This is actually different from the attitude to success. In the world, most of the successful people did the same thing to themselves. When things are tough, they told themselves, 'Never said impossible, everything is possible.' Their key to success is to deny their prediction of failure, work hard to change the whole situation and their positive thinking has helped them to raid success. Even if failure took place, they would say to themselves, 'I will rise up again.' To them, failures are just steps leading to success. There's no big deal about failing. This has made a big difference between these people and those who focused on failure only.

Goliath as well as the army and even King Saul were wondering how could a child had challenged a tall, big guy. To picture Goliath and David sizes, they are like The Rock and karate kid. But Goliath is actually bigger than The Rock, he is a GIANT.

But David was different. He never questioned about whether he would win or lose. In his mind, he never thought of the sizes or put on any other worldly measurement, he was only bewildered, 'How could Goliath challenge the army of God?!'

In the two opponent's mindset, they had fixed one another as definite loser. Goliath wanted to finish quickly, 'Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field.'[1 Samuel 17:44]

Check out what David replied.

'Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. This day will the Lord deliver thee into my hand; and I will smithe thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the eath; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel."

David was not boasting but he had faith in God.

Goliath had faith in his own size and strength.

Just like most of the successful people, their difference are to have faith on their own. And so their success are hard gain and short of promise.

Yet, I practiced the concept wrongly earlier.

I had worries that I might not be doing things through Christ whenever the strength and motivation emerged from myself. I thought strength that coming from myself was my own self. I know, this is something more to the spiritual part.

I had this confusion. But then eventually I get what it means.

When I am motivated, I am doing things through Christ because Christ is in me as long as I learn how to let go.

Let go of the worldly measurement, worries, competition and all negative things that would arise when my heart only want to win.

Doing things through Christ doesn't mean you must see visually the power fallen from the sky and pour on you nor let yourself be doing nothing but let God do everything for you.

It's about letting go. It's about how many percent of faith that you would let God handle when you start to feel impossible. It's about how confident are you in God that failures will never influence your relationship with Him.

If I say according to my perception, 'Therefore, doing all things through Christ must come after living life for Christ.'

It is actually not confusing at all if you just fill your every life aspect with Christ. You would find things are all connected, and then connected to Him. ‘And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose.' -Romans 8:28, KJV.






You said let it go, You said let it go, You said life is waiting for the one who lose control......
---Let it go by Tenth Avenue North