{"id":1073,"date":"2021-06-08T02:49:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T02:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2021-06-08T01:50:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T01:50:26","slug":"leaders-of-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/leaders-of-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaders of Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tuesday, June 8<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leaders of Today<\/strong><\/p>\n

For it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure. Philippians 2:13<\/strong><\/p>\n

All too often we respond to God\u2019s commands in a hopeless way. Seeing the task as too much, we might say something like: \u201cIt\u2019s too hard for me. Why me? I\u2019m not good enough. This can\u2019t possibly be done by me.\u201d We may even decide not to try. Or like Gideon begin to list excuses or like Moses explain to God our flaws. But when God gives a command we would do well to remember two things \u2013 when we can\u2019t, God can.<\/p>\n

First off, it is important we know He\u2019ll never ask us to do anything He wouldn\u2019t do Himself. When God asks us to serve, He already sent His Son Jesus to stoop lower than we ever will. When He asks us to bring a sacrifice, again consider our Savior Christ Jesus, He has already paid more than we will ever have to. When God asks us to resist temptation, we already have the perfect example of how we ought to do this (Hebrews 4:15). So you see we don\u2019t have a God who shouts at us pointing His finger from a distance, requiring others to obey His every command. Rather we have a God who leads by example, who\u2019s full of integrity, and who only asks things of us which His Son has already led the way in.<\/p>\n

But this isn\u2019t all. Being the good good Father that He is, God has also provided us the power within us to fulfill His will. As it says: \u2018for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose\u2019 <\/em>(Philippians 2:13).<\/p>\n

God knows very well that we\u2019re unable to do everything He asks of us. We, too, know that all of us fail to keep His will. But there\u2019s hope. His Spirit in us will work out that which He wants. But here\u2019s the catch: we must yield to Him. We must give Him access into every area of our lives, and give Him complete control. And truth be told: that\u2019s scary and sometimes difficult- but not impossible.<\/p>\n

Today, surrender your life to God. Allow Him to govern, rule within and take full control. Do you believe God can do for you what you cannot do for yourself? Then turn it over to Him and because all things are possible with God.<\/p>\n

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Tuesday, June 8 Leaders of Today For it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure. Philippians 2:13 All too often we respond to God\u2019s commands in a hopeless way. Seeing the task as too much, we might say something like: \u201cIt\u2019s too hard for me. Why […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1074,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions\/1074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cornerstonecem.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}