“To love means loving the unlovable. To
forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the
unbelievable.”
— G.K. Chesterton (1874–1936)
The power of God is difficult to
understand for many. For most in this life it is a trivial nonsense. They
cannot see how an ‘invisible’ entity can inspire results of the supernatural,
even though many, who cannot believe, believe somehow in horoscope, etc. How
fickle are we? How far off the garden path of spiritual truth do we all tend to
wander?
This power of God we speak of is
real.
This power of God that we
believer’s believe in is not what many expect; indeed, many believers are shown
eventually that this supernatural power of God operates most in the relational
realm, and not always so much in the pure supernatural.
The power of God brings forth
possibility out of impossibility, but mostly in terms of relationships, and by
acceptance—the realities of grace as they enfold over and weave within our
lives.
Where we need the power of God
most is where the power of God resides most—in the depths of the relational
life that confuse us and overwhelm.
Power When Love and Forgiveness Seem
Impossible
The most power we need is the
power to love and to forgive when we struggle to achieve those ends of
ourselves. When we struggle with relationships all of those prayers for God to
break through and do the impossible faint, or, in fact, those prayers of
impossibility become borne on the need for reconciliation; even though we
cannot see how these prayers could possibly come true.
When we have found it impossible
to love someone we need to love, or forgiveness has eluded us again and again
as it rips and tears shreds from our emotional beings, we need the power of God
to break through.
And this is where faith breaks
past our lack of belief.
We simply trust it is possible. We
pray to God that it is our most earnest desire; to achieve a relational
position we can have peace with. Then we trust. We employ our faith. We simply
obey.
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The power of God is most needed
and most visible through relationships. This power of God is the key to loving
the unlovable and forgiving the unpardonable. Only through God’s grace—a
miraculous gift—are we able to achieve a state of peace on issues that once
tormented us. Such is the power of God for life.
© 2013 S. J. Wickham.
1 comment:
Well put AMEN GOD BLESS YOU
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