Power Issues

Okay, the weather gets hot and power issues come to the forefront. For one cause or another, a lack of electrical power hits hardest when the ol' AC doesn't work. Or, maybe it hits you hardest when the PC or the computer network is down. Perhaps it is worst for another when some animal eats the only growing pumpkin in the garden. Wait, that has nothing to do with electrical power, although I wouldn't mind lighting up the trespassing, pumpkin-munching blighter. It's a power issue. As in, when I sleep or go away to work, I have no power to stop the beast from eating my crops, whatever beast it was that committed this heinous crime. When we arrived for Bible study this morning, the power was out in the building. Without electricity supplied by the town, we had no power to turn on lights or energize the computers. In many a situation, you or I may enjoy a certain powerlessness, but God is never powerless.

As a child, you may have experienced an inequality in power. The bully could pick on you or knock you down, but the child you once were could in no way turn that around. The psalmist noted that wealth did not equally rest on one person or another. Prophets warned judges and rulers to not favor one person over another. Jesus told the disciples that rulers in this world would lord it over those less in power. When looking around at the world, we can see a lot of inequality in power of one type or another. However, strange as it may seem to our world-raised eyes, the ultimate power over all things loves you and me.

When we come to believe in Jesus, we also accept His sovereign Father's unmatchable power. Yet, there is that love and goodness. Well, praise God for that! How long would we last if the ultimate power in creation hated every one of us? Yes sir! Praise God for His love; that is a power I won't take issue with.

Bucky