I was coming back home after the meeting and I had my infant daughter and my three year old son with me. My daughter was in the stroller and my son wanted to ride on my shoulders.
I started to run a bit and my son asked me to keep on running, saying, "Abba, I have strength to run." I asked him if he meant that he could run on his own if I took him down from my shoulders. He said, "No, Abba." So on the downhill part of our street I ran again, and he said to me proudly, "Abba, you see! I have strength to run!"
Of course I thought this was very cute, but I also realized that there was an important spiritual lesson in his words and in the way he related to his father. Whenwe have no strength ourselves,we can rest on the shoulders of the Lord, and we too can always say "I have strength to run."
"I know what it is to be in need and what it is to have more than enough. I have learned this secret, so that anywhere, at any time, I am content, whether I am full or hungry, whether I have too much or too little. I have the strength to face all conditions by the power that Christ gives me." (Philippians 4:12-13)
- 16 OCTOBER -