Strength for the Climb - The Holy Act of Hope

Today we are in the final week of our series—Strength for the Climb. This series is based on scriptures our children explored at this year’s Vacation Bible School. Each day of VBS, the kids looked at a story from scripture that amplified the theme verse for the week: Philippians 4:13: "For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength." Often it seems we think of that verse as a kind of spiritual superpower—as if “I can do everything!” “Nothing is hard with Jesus!” But when Paul wrote those words while sitting in prison, he didn’t mean to ignore the difficult, but rather, he meant to assure those reading this letter that God will give us the strength to persevere through anything. Today, we see this illustrated in the story of Peter and John healing someone who was unable to walk.