{"id":717,"date":"2026-04-28T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spendayearwithjesus.com\/djp\/?p=717"},"modified":"2026-04-09T11:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:20:14","slug":"pricked-by-my-starting-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wjes.us\/b\/?p=717","title":{"rendered":"Pricked by my starting point"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Galilee speaking tour was a wild success! So Jesus lived the sweet life from one success to the next, right?<\/p>\n

It’s easy to think that way, especially when you hear the phrase, “I can do all things<\/em> through Christ.” There’s a song, a poster, t-shirts, etc. How can we not experience success!?<\/p>\n

But wait… it follows that if Christ can do all things for us, then he should have been able do all things for himself, too. So I assumed that Jesus’ experience was not subject to suspense or uncertainty. He never got into a jam.\u00a0Logically, I then wondered why I had so much anxiety and\u00a0gridlock\u00a0in my life if Christ could just\u00a0bail me out like he did himself.<\/p>\n

Either something was wrong with me or something was wrong with him.<\/p>\n

I took a second look at the context of the phrase, “I can do\u00a0all things<\/em>” and was shocked by what I found.<\/p>\n

What I understand now, I will try to explain with a picture of the phrase from the original Greek. The circled words below mean “all,” so there are three references to “all” in the context of the “can do” phrase.\u00a0 When it says, “I can do all things,” the “all things”\u00a0summarizes the preceding the sentence, which includes<\/p>\n