Recanting 10/22

If you listen to my self talk, which I often don’t, I hear myself repeating: ‘I can’t do this’. ‘I can’t’.  Yet, I say that while I am doing the thing I say I can’t, thereby proving that I can…Hmmm

My ‘I can’t’ rhetoric serves as a kind of safety net that I jump into in case I’m right. If I don’t succeed then I’ll have my “I can’t” to fall back on. As if to say, “It’s not my fault. I told you I couldn’t!”

But in God’s economy my safety net is more like a trampoline. I jump into it and He bounces me back onto my feet to show me that I can.

I think it is true that He does sometimes give me more than I can handle but it is never more than He can handle. So the struggle becomes my jumping away and His catching me as I bounce back and do the thing despite my own predictions of failure.

It’s a matter of taking every thought captive, I think. When my self-talk says I can’t, I need to stop and claim that God says I can.

It is not easy. It is arduous, soul stretching difficult and it sometimes takes more than I can give.  The thing about God, though, is that He has a way of turning my can’ts into can and my don’ts into done, transforming, demolishing even, my self imposed boundaries in the process. Hmmm, indeed.

Recanting my can’ts,

C-Anne
October 28, 2022

"We take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ."
I Corinthians 10:5b