Momentum For Monday, September 13th 2021

"Now God has revealed these things to us by the Spirit, for the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God." (1 Cor 2:10")

As I'm writing this, I've just started the first half of my fall semester for school. I'm having to double down on classes as one of the classes I'm taking has to run 16 weeks long instead of the usual 8 weeks. This 16 week course is one of the reasons I signed back up to finish a degree I started years ago. I've been waiting to take it. I had to get pre-requisites out of the way first and this course is only offered in the fall. Which class is it you ask? Greek.

I love Scripture. I wanted to learn how to understand the New Testament better. I wanted to fortify my writing and studying skills too. So, Greek will do that right? Wrong. At least not yet. I'm learning the entire Greek language y'all. This is hands-down one of the hardest classes I've ever taken. I'm doing vowel exercises and having to learn English grammar and sentence structure all over again. I'm already in a brain fog from learning and ready to drop this class.

Here's the thing- I can't drop it. Everything inside of me wants drop it since school already demands a lot of time in an already busy life, but this was a desire before I went back. I feel like it's a desire that God gave me to be quite honest. Granted I had no idea how difficult it would be and I kind of feel like I shot myself in the foot, yet I'm committed to do this.

This isn't the first time I've been in a situation like this either. God has given me a dream, goal, or desire way beyond my capability or skill because He knows I will have to depend solely on Him to help achieve it. He is the only One capable of doing impossible. It is His major I guess (sorry about the academia pun, but I had to).

Listen, I'm not guaranteed to pass this class. Actually, I'm not worried about that to be frank. I am confident that if I put my best effort into this, He will help me. But I'm not beyond asking y'all to pray for a girl.

Is there a godly desire that He has stored in your heart that seems impossible or completely daunting? Don't shy away from it. We were made to do hard things. It's genetic in a sense. Our Heavenly Father can do the impossible, so we will also do hard things because of the Holy Spirit in us being our Helper.

Scripture says that He has prepared things for us in advance and has revealed them to us by the Spirit. We were made to do good works. Those "things" or "works" prepared for us may just very well look or be impossible on our own. Let's accept the task and trust God to do what only He can in us and through us. And don't forget, pray for your sister learning Greek over here.

"For we are His creation, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time so that we should walk in them."

(Ephesians 2:10)