4 Such confidence we have through Christ before God. 5 Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God. 6 He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant—not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
Someday, I plan on going skydiving. Skydiving, of course, is very tricky and dangerous. It takes a lot of knowledge to do it correctly. However, anyone can go skydiving. You just have to do a tandem jump with an instructor.
In a tandem jump, you can honestly say that you went skydiving. But, ultimately, it was the instructor who took care of all of the skill part. You still did it, but you didn’t really do it. Paradoxical, yes. But either way, you get to experience the rush of a lifetime.
This is sort of what Paul is getting at. We can do anything, yet we can do nothing. We can do it because God is doing it. But the cool part is that we get to take the dive with him, and even though it is God and not us, we get to experience all of the rush.
What plane is God calling you to dive out of? What’s keeping you from doing it?
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