Power Plays

Martin Luther once said, "God made the world out of nothing, and it is only when we become nothing that God can make anything of us." Though we have probably said it often, I still think we need to learn that conventional expectaions around power don't work. The Church comes at things from a very different angle - or it should. The Bible has many usefully challenging comments on power. One of the most significant and well known is those words recorded in 1 Corinthians 1:25 - "For God's foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God's weakness is stronger than human strength." Similarly, Zechariah 4:6 - "Not by might, not by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord of hosts." We do all have power - which is precisely why we need to learn reliance on God.