Resurrection Power
If
you follow the business news, you will have read countless stories about the
coming explosion of data centers to handle all of the artificial intelligence
(AI) applications. The projected costs go into the trillions of dollars. You’d
think that money would be the limiting factor in building data centers but it’s
not. It’s finding enough power to run all the facilities. A single facility can
use more power than a medium-sized city. Everything else can be arranged, but
if you don’t have the power, it’s all useless.
Continuing
from my last post - Paul wrote to the Philippians, “I want to know Christ and
the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his
sufferings…..” (Philippians 3:10). If you can, stop for a minute and just
meditate on how much power it takes to bring a dead person back to life, and
not just to any life, but to an eternal life with an incorruptible body. Now
think about what it’s like knowing that the same power is available to you as you
grow to know Jesus.
We hear so often about people who abuse the
power they’ve been given that we might attach a negative connotation to power.
Resurrection power isn’t like worldly power because it is controlled by love which,
by its nature, seeks the good of others. It’s available to us in every aspect of
our lives, in everything we do and in every problem we face. It makes things
possible.
We all have been called to serve God in one way
or another. He will never ask us to do something that He hasn’t equipped us to
do. We should call on His power and not try to do it on our own. We are more
likely to burn out when we rely only on ourselves. Self-reliance also puts us
at risk for pride.
Our
natural human reaction when faced with a problem is to try to deal with it
using our own resources. We have to trust God to see us through to the end and
be willing to leave it in His hands. Paul had to learn this in dealing with his
“thorn in the flesh”.
“Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it
away from me. But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power
is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about
my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.” (2 Corinthians 12:9).
Resurrection power changes things for the
better. It may change our circumstances, but it will change us if we are
open to it. May we grow to know Jesus and be transformed into the people He
calls us to be. May Paul’s prayer for the Ephesians be for us as well.
“I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and
revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray that the eyes of your
heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has
called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and
his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the
mighty strength he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated
him at his right hand in the heavenly realms” (Ephesians 1:17-20).
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