You Can Do Hard Things

Breathe Deep and Know: God will give you the strength you need to do hard things.

You can do hard things—not because you’re strong enough but because God is.

Popular memes and motivational quotes might tell you that you have the strength within you to do anything you set your mind to, that everything you need is already inside you, that if you just believe in yourself, you can do anything. But the truth is, your strength is finite. It has an end. And some hard things in life really are too hard to face in your own strength.

Real strength, enduring strength, does not come from within. It comes from the Source of strength Himself, the One who made us, the One who gives life and breath and power to all things. Believing in yourself can’t compare to the strength that comes from believing in Him.

Release the hold you have on your life. Relax your muscles, loosen your grip, and allow the strength of God to sustain you. You don’t have to be strong enough because He is strong enough. You don’t need to have all the answers because He is the ultimate answer. You can walk this hard road because He is making a way through.

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Philippians 4:13 ESV