Philippians 2:13 Amplified Bible (AMP) For it is [not your strength, but it is] ^[a]God who is effectively at work in you, both to will and to work [that is, strengthening, energizing, and creating in you the longing and the ability to fulfill your purpose] for His good pleasure.

Footnotes; a God supports the believer, but it is the believer’s responsibility to do what he has been called by God to do.

Reading the Amplified Bible Version expands our understanding of scriptures in truth. It is not a one for one translation but takes the truth about God and reinforces what is said in context with His character and our responsibilities.

Once God has adopted us into His family, He has created a place for us based on relationship. We are not the first, Christ is first. Thankfully we are not the last. We will be big brothers and sisters to the newborn babes in Christ. As in all families, our placement comes with family responsibilities.

“Would you please feed the baby?”

“Go with your little brother and keep him safe.”

The reason for the title “You Got This” is because God not only has created a desire in us but also trained us up in the Way. Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. We have been walking with Jesus longer than our little brothers and sisters in Christ. It is because we have been changed in heart and mind that we can do this. Believing comes with responsibilities. Our actions must reflect our beliefs or we will be misleading and mistreating the little ones.

It is important during the performance of these responsibilities that the little ones are always shown Christ. He is the Way. We are not creating followers of our own. Little ones like to mimic older siblings so make sure that they see us walking with Jesus and not on our own.

Isaiah 28:9-10 English Standard Version

⁹ “To whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, those taken from the breast?
¹⁰ For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.”

Believe that God is a God of order and in that order, we will discover the answer to questions we did not even think to ask.

1Corinthians 13:4 begins with love is patient. How love acts begins with patience. We are reminded by Isaiah that there is a buildup of knowledge and that it does not come all at once. When we read and receive understanding there is a tendency to believe that is all there is to believe. That is like saying one plus one is two and I understand math. First precepts are built upon, precept upon precept.

It is in our best interest to revisit the scriptures for the best of reasons. Our minds are flesh and subject to decay. We do not always remember correctly in our own strength. A wise old doctor of theology has a favorite phrase he used in every sermon. “Repetition is the price of knowledge.”

Hebrews 5:12-14 English Standard Version

¹² For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, ¹³ for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. ¹⁴ But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.

Consistent practice, repetition, to gain wisdom in the knowledge that we do not know everything, but we do know the One who does.