Ephesians
3:14-19 “When I think of all
this, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father, the Creator of everything
in heaven and on earth. I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources
he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit. Then Christ
will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow
down into God’s love and keep you strong. And may you have the power to
understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how
deep his love is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too
great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness
of life and power that comes from God.”
We
all know that we need the power to triumph over evil in this world. However,
our real need lies not in the external world but in the internal combat zone
where we fight our moral battles. Galatians 5:16-18 tells us, “So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the flesh desires what is contrary to
the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in
conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want. But
if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.” The Triune
God of heaven and Earth is omnipotent, which breaks down to “omni” – from Latin
“omnis” meaning ‘all’ and “potent” meaning ‘powerful; mighty’. Therefore, God
is Almighty; possessing unlimited power; all powerful.
Revelation
19:6b “Alleluia! For the Lord
God Omnipotent reigns!”
One
pastor once said that none of us will
ever need to leap a tall building in a single bound or bend steel beams with
our bare hands, but we do need to conquer sin in our lives, overcome the
temptations that surround us daily, and bend our iron wills on obedience to God
Almighty. As Christians, we have only one source for such power; the ultimate
power of Jesus Christ in our hearts. Not only does Christ’s power expel the
evil within us, it conquers the attacks from without. Christ calls us to
triumph, but He never leaves us to fight on our own. Jesus always leads us
forth in triumph, encouraging and urging us to go and conquer in His name. With
Christ’s power inhabiting our souls, we can conquer evil.
Christ
is the only true superhero, and He lives within us and works through us. We all
need to allow Him to empower us for the challenges and temptations we face
every day this side of eternity. By Christ’s power, we can conquer all evil
that comes our way; the power that comes from God.
In
Christ, Brian