I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me

The context in which that popular scripture was written is important if we must adequately understand it.
So many people have been disappointed by being motivated by scriptures understood out of context.

Some use 'I can'
These people end up trying their hands on just anything either trained for or not. To be pushed by 'I can'  without definition has the potential of daring what's not necessary. They can do what they don't have to do. They can do what's not theirs to be done. They can do whatever comes to their minds. Before we can allow 'I can' you need focus. When we have discovered what we have no choice but to do, then 'I can' mentality must kick in.

Some say 'I can do all things'.

No one can do all things in the real sense of it. These people lack direction and purpose. They want to do whatever they see others doing or whatever comes to their mind. They believe they too can join the race even when they weren't built for it. And when they can't they call their experience failure. God doesn't create failure, men do.
You weren't created to do all things. Isn't that the reason others too were created? You were created for a purpose and that's where vision comes from. Vision in turn gives focus and focus blinds you from other things that aren't in the path of the light streaming into your focal point. People who don't focus on the particular fruit and life's product to bear for the benefit of people end up not doing anything. This is the pain of most multi talented people, they find it difficult to pin down one thing to focus on and so keep trying their hands on different things while time flitters away. There is a reason why a person is multi talented and that purpose is paramount above the purposes of each of the talents. That purpose helps to manage the talents, here the talents can't direct what to do, the purpose does. This saves from frustration that makes it difficult to relate life's position with inherent abilities.

Some say 'I can do all things through Christ'

These people want to hang whatever they want to do on Christ even if He didn't command it. As mentioned before wanting to do all things in the first place is a manifestation of lack of purpose and vision. Every good eye has a blind spot. If your vision is a good quality one, it must be blind to some things. But now, with it not being blind to anything they would want to hang their pursuit on Christ. You can't use the name of Jesus to establish what's not His will. You can't use the name of the presidency of a country, as a minister appointed by the president and backed up by the Constitution to do something unconstitutional. The same thing here. God isn't an author of confusion. He is a God of purpose. He only releases His power to accomplish His pleasure and you can't armrest Him to do what's not within His purpose.

The correct scriptures says
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

We see in context that apostle Paul was giving a testimony of what his experience walking with God through various situations had made of him. He had such experiences that taught him contentment and how to maintain his virtues in every circumstance he found himself.
Both in his sufferings and in enjoyments, in being honored and in being dishonored he learned to be same person being in control of his life. He attributed that to the strength Christ gives.

Now if we have to borrow that to be used more broadly, we can see that the strength Christ gives is what determines what we can do. It gives direction and purpose. It shows what the Master's expectations and hope from us are. The strength is perfected in our weaknesses and that's grace according to what Christ told Paul in 1 Corinthians 12:9.

Grace is what determines apostleship. The empowerment you have received is a signal to what you can do. When Peter and John perceived that the same God who did greatly in the apostleship of the Jews through Peter was doing same to the apostleship of the gentiles through Paul, they gave Paul the right hand of fellowship. Galatians 2

What's God's strength helping you to do in meeting needs? Christ strengthens us to be like Him and we can do all things around the demands of holiness and righteousness. We can by the strength He gives.

In service and in the pursuit of destiny there is always an area we are strengthened to perform. Discovering that and staying there pursuing the purpose of God releases omnipotence that makes nothing impossible to us in that area. There is always enough power to prosecute divine plan and no one's destiny is to high for his or her attainment through the power working within us. The potentials are enormous if we can discover the strength of Christ given to us to do His will. We can do incredible things though the strength Christ releases and the gifts He gracefully endows.

None of us is called to do all things. We have been called to pursue a purpose and Christ strengthens us to do it with omnipotence. Whatever the demands and challenges of the pursuit of that purpose may be, we have enough strength and resources from heaven to accomplish it and we can always join apostle Paul to say...

[My Offline Bible] Philippians 4
11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. 12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. 13 I can do all things through Christ who strengtheneth me.

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