#101in1001 letter

Alright, so here are these 1001 days ahead. You've planned, you've added and removed items from the list, you've tweaked, second guessed, and yes doubted. Your 101 things today don't look like they did 2 months ago and you aren't sure that this will finish looking the way it does now. You want to be ok with that, but you're not.

You struggle with mounting insecurities and self-doubt. You failed last month, might probably going to happen this month too. You don't mean to be negative, you just give over to your steady nature. The nature that always seems to do the things you didn't plan to do. 

I'm here to say, that's good. I am glad you don't have this mountain top confidence and self-reliance. It means that because you, yourself, have in fact failed you, you can't rely on you. You, by nature, are a sinful, fallen, unreliable person. You, in yourself, won't complete, finish, fulfill, or accomplish anything. Good. You want to and that is what gets you in trouble. You work so hard, climb as high as you can go, and still come out behind. Great.

Are you with me? Do you see where I am getting to? You want you to do it. But God never, ever set it up that way. You having you do it wasn't His plan. Christ was and is. He sent Him as a baby to live the life you can't live, to die a death you can't, and bring about results you are bound never to accomplish. It's His perfect plan that enables you to do anything. 

Philippians 4:13 is an overused verse in my opinion. Everyone uses it, everything has it on there. Truth is still truth regardless. I can do all things not because  I desire to, plan to, or want to, but because Christ lives in me. 

So because Christ lives in you and you are a redeemed, repaired, and repurposed child of the Kingdom you can do all things. Enjoy your 101 things, enjoy how Christ helps and how the Father changes!