If You Can’t, God Can, So Let Him

“We are Jews by nature and not sinners from among the Gentiles; nevertheless knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified…” ~ Galatians 2:15-16 (NASB)

“…I knew from that moment that I had an alcoholic mind. I saw that will power and self-knowledge would not help in those strange mental blank spots. I had never been able to understand people who said that a problem had them hopelessly defeated. I knew then. It was a crushing blow.” (Alcoholics Anonymous, page 42)

 

Impossible.
Can’t be done.
Never in a million years —
I know because I tried a million times.
It’s no more my nature to be good
than it’s to be expected
those monkeys can type
Shakespeare’s writings.
But those “in the know”
call the monkey-feat
the mathematical term “almost surely.”
Sure.
In a pig’s eye.
Sure.
In God’s hands.

I can’t, God.
But you can.
If I turn loose, you will.  Won’t you?