¹⁰ Finally, be strengthened by the Lord and by his vast strength. (Ephesians 6:10 CSB)

From where do you derive your strength? Is it because you are a strong person, either mentally or physically? Do you gain it from your personality, being and “A type” person or maybe your position? Maybe you gain it from the fact that you have worked hard and made yourself relatively wealthy.

Everything I listed above fades. Only our spiritual strength stands and only then when it is founded upon God.

I have said before that I consider myself a relatively strong person, physically, mentally and spiritually. But I have gone through times of great weakness and spiritual struggles. These almost always come when I am depending upon myself too much. But in these times, once I humbled myself and turned back to God I begin to feel my strength return.

I think we, like Samson, have to be brought low to actually show our great strength in the Lord. We tend to forget God when everything is going well and we do not praise the one from whom all things flow.

I began to use a phrase that repeat to myself quite often: “In and through”

It is when I do all things “In and through” Christ that I am at my best, at my strongest. It is in these few simple words that I found my true strength, and in and through Christ I find my path.