Power
Outage
The key is not money; organization,
cleverness, or education. Are you and I seeing the results Peter saw? Are we
bringing thousands of men and women to Christ the way he did? If not, we need
to get back to His power source..." Jim Cymbala
This is Monday isn’t it? This morning I left my house earlier than
normal since it was storming and raining.
I arrive at the office and the door where I normally go to enter the
building is glass and there is normally a hall light on. I didn’t think anything about it because I
could see computer screens in the first floor offices and they were on so the
building had power. So it is raining and
there is no cover over the entrance and I walk up to the security keypad and my
access key beeped but no light came on.
The door was still locked. So I walk
back to my car and sit to see if anyone else drives up and can get in. I see a couple of guys go up to the front
door and not come back out so I think, “great, I can get in that door. So I get out of my car, it is still pouring,
and I go to the main entrance, try my card and the door won’t open. So I go back out to my car.
So I am sitting in my car thinking about how
this is making me late to write my devotional, when a guy pulls up, gets out of
his car, walks up to the door and it opens.
I get out of my car and walk up to the door and there are still no
lights on in the hall but the keypad works and opens the door. I get upstairs and lights are flickering,
there is no air on and that white noise that they pipe into office buildings is
gone. It is so quiet. The only noise comes from the few people who
are here this early and the air conditioner that keeps trying to come on but
keeps kicking off again. I run into one of the ladies that I work with and she
tells me, “You may not have power in your office because the front half of the
building is dark. I walk down the dark
hallway to my office and step into my office and my lights come on. So we have a partial power outage.
We have become totally dependent on
power. There is not much that we do in
life that isn’t controlled by electricity.
God is the best source of power and we often don’t think to use Him when
we are most in need of it. If we only
have partial power we are not going to operate at maximum efficiency in
anything we do in His name. If I only
have partial power I may be able to connect with someone who needs to hear
about Him, but if I don’t know the scriptures to share with the other person,
then I am operating with only a portion of the power that God wants to give
me. Where do you get your power? God is the best source and all we have to do
is believe in Him and ask.
Prayer for the Day:
Heavenly Father, as I thought this morning about our lack of power at the
office, it turned my thoughts to You.
You are an amazing power source and I often don’t take the time to tap
into it. “The God of Israel is He who
gives strength and power to His people, Blessed be God!” Psalm 68:35
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