When I was about ten years old, I came into possession of a bow and some arrows. It wasn’t one of the fancy, pulley-laden, scientific bows of today. It was a plain, simple, recurve bow. I discovered that it took a good amount of strength to pull it. In those days, fathers might teach their sons to shoot the bow by standing or kneeling beside them, by placing their left hand on the son’s left hand and holding the bow, and by placing their right hand on the son’s right hand and holding the arrow. From a distance, it might appear that the child was shooting the bow, but in reality, the father was doing all the work,

Jacob, while blessing his son Joseph, uses this illustration - the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God if Jacob. It was bit Joseph’s strenght that had delivered himself and his entire family, but it was the hands of the mighty God of Jacob. This is not only true of Joseph, but has been true of every servant of the Lord since time began. It was true of Noah, Abraham, Moses, Joshua, Gideon, Elijah, Daniel, and many more. If we are to have any chance of being strong, we must be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. Then we will be able to say, with Paul, that it is only when we are weak that we are strong.

If we serve the Lord, we must serve with the strength from the Lord.

[Eph 3:16 KJV] 16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man.