Incarnate Spiritual Pluck

One of my favorite meditations today from Oswald Chambers’ My Utmost For His Highest:

“We have to take ourselves by the scruff of the neck and shake ourselves, and we will find that we can do what we said we could not.  The curse with most of us is that we won’t.  The Christian life is one of incarnate spiritual pluck.”

First, I like this because it seems so out of character for Chambers.  His encouragement rarely takes this form.  But mostly I like the phrase – “incarnate spiritual pluck” as a reminder that sometimes, often even, I need to reach beyond myself and rely not only on my “pluck” but on the “incarnate spiritual pluck” available to me.  Just a reminder, I guess, of Matthew 19:26: “With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.”