Strength

Strength is a word that has more sides than a domino. Like all words, the understanding comes from interpretation. Strength means different things to different people. What does it mean to be strong? I've read the bible over and over and I find so many different shows of strength.

Strength is saying, "NO," to the voice in your own head that says, "Go ahead. It won't hurt."

Strength is lifting a weight that everyone says you couldn't.

Strength is saying to someone, "you are that man!" Even if the hearer is a king.

Strength is wrestling, getting beat, and dealing with the limp.

Strength is calling wrongs what they are.

Strength is telling someone, "wherever you go I will go."

Strength is feeling compassion so much it makes your gut hurt.

Strength is realizing everybody's got something to deal with, and nobody's normal.

Strength is running to a prodigal son.

Strength is looking at a giant and coming at him with the only five rocks you've got.

Strength is building a boat in a desert because God said so.

Strength is a soldier who knows each day is gift.

Strength is praying so hard that you sweat blood and tears over something you do not want to do, but do it anyway

Strength is forgiving. It's confronting. It's loving.

The greatest strength is one who would stretch out his arms so wide, bleed, thirst, and hurt. But those arms were stretched out so wide that Jesus could not only hang on a cross, but wrap those arms around even those of us who spit at him.

True strength can be summed up in one name, "Jesus."