{"id":717,"date":"2020-05-05T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/?p=717"},"modified":"2018-04-22T12:58:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T17:58:47","slug":"pricked-by-my-starting-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/?p=717","title":{"rendered":"Pricked by my starting point"},"content":{"rendered":"

You have heard the phrase, “I can do all things through Christ.” There’s a song, a poster, t-shirts, etc. It’s an\u00a0inspiring tagline.<\/p>\n

Here’s what I thought when I heard the phrase. If\u00a0Christ can do all things for me, then he could do all things for himself, too. I assumed that Jesus’\u00a0experience was not subject to suspense or uncertainty. He never got into a jam.<\/p>\n

Logically, I then wondered why I had so much anxiety and\u00a0gridlock\u00a0in my life if Christ could just\u00a0bail me out like he did himself.<\/p>\n

Either something was wrong with me or something was wrong with him.<\/p>\n

I took a second look at the context of that phrase and was shocked by what I found.<\/p>\n

What I understand now, I will try to explain with a picture of the phrase from the original Greek. The circled words below mean “all,” so there are three references to “all” in the context of the “can do” phrase.\u00a0 When it says, “I can do all things,” the “all things”\u00a0summarizes the preceding the sentence, which includes<\/p>\n