You Can Do it!

Kansei Matsuzawa is from Tokyo, Japan. He grew up there playing
soccer until the thought occurred to him as a teenager that he wanted
to try American football after watching his first NFL game. He had never
kicked a football until the age of 20. Of course, it took a lot of practice
as well as watching YouTube and Instagram videos. Last Saturday,
Kansei’s last second kick helped Hawaii defeat Stanford if both teams’
2025 opener. This is his fourth year of playing college football in
America. His goal is to kick in the NFL, and who’s to doubt him? He’s
come so far already!
What have you wanted to try to do for the Lord but convinced yourself
is impossible? Memorize 100 Scriptures? Preach a sermon? Teach a
class? Share the gospel with a lost soul? Serve in church leadership?
Whatever is within the scope of God’s will and authorization and
whatever is within the field of human possibility, you can do it! Find the
tools needed and use them. Research, explore, and attempt! Consider
what happened when men and women in Bible times thought this way:

• Caleb was ready to fight giants (Num. 13:30), then 40 years
later he drove them out (Jos. 14:12; 15:14).
• Jael, an unassuming woman, killed the evil commander of an
army with a tent peg and ended Canaan’s oppression of Israel
(Jud. 4:17-23).
• David slew a frightening giant with a sling and a rock (1 Sam.
17:49-50).
• David’s mighty men, Adino, Eleazar, Shammah, Abishai, and
Benaiah, among others, did incredibly daring and memorable
things among God’s enemies (2 Sam. 23:8ff).
• Elijah out-dueled 450 prophets of Baal on Mt. Carmel and called
down fire from heaven (1 Ki. 18:36-46).
• Peter walked on water (Mat. 14:28-29), then later preached the
first gospel sermon (Acts 2:21-36).
• Paul won the Gentile world to Christ in one incredible effort after
another (Acts 13-28).
• Hebrews 11 breaks down a highlight reel of incredible, often
unlikely, accomplishments men and woman made for God by
faith through the ages.
It still happens today. No, not through miraculous means and not of the
physical, material kind. Not even in episodes that are earth-shattering
and dramatic. It may be a brief conversation, a courageous stand, an
act of service, or a show of genuine love.
God once asked Moses, “What is that in your hand?” (Ex. 4:2). Is He
asking you and me that? The answer? “Whatever your hand finds to do,
do it with all your might” (Ec. 9:10)!
Neal Pollard