“I praise you because I am fearfully and
wonderfully made; your works are
wonderful, I
know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the
secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes
saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be. How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How
vast is the sum of them! Were I to count
them, they would outnumber the grains of sand— when I awake, I am still with
you.” (Psalm 139:14-18, NIV)
When we describe power, we tend to use
words such as force, capacity and authority. We tend to think of power as the
ability to control, the strength to change and the supremacy of one person or
authority over another. All powers can be are matched, changed or reduced by
the capacity and strength of another power. In some ways power is about the bigger,
the better and the potency. Still all power ... that
is used or taken, without restraint and wisdom will become brutality,
injustice, insanity and chaos.
God’s power is infinite in its capacity
and sovereignty and yet is wondrously woven into His wisdom, presence and
essence and thus is perfect at all times.
In the presence of God and by His power, mountains are both made and melted
into nothingness. God’s power is perfect
in His mercy and love to us through the grace of Jesus Christ as it saves,
changes and remakes us. His power is without equal, above everything else and
able to create substance and beauty out of His Word alone. Still His power is perfect
in His designing unfathomable intricacies and complexities into every facet of
His creation.
Power is deceptive to human beings as it
is subject to our foolishness, inadequacies and the emotion of the human heart (Jeremiah
17:9). When we sense our weakness or feel powerless, we may be tempted to use any
power for revenge or control. Many times,
we end up with a bigger mess in our lives than the place we started from. On
any day that we feel weak, we are far better to trust in God’s power as it is
without equal and it is perfect because of His wisdom. All weaknesses acknowledged and abandoned unto
God, thus become wondrous as worship as we see God’s sovereignty and they are perfected
in His hands, as we put our actions and our ways under His control and supremacy.
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. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight
in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For
when I am weak, then I am strong. (2 Corinthians 12:9-10, NIV)
Suggested
Reading … Psalm 139
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