Do you ever stop to think about your power? Who in your path of life is there for you to empower? Who in the path is there to empower you? Do you ever think about where your power comes from?
One important role and responsibility of mine is to be a mother. Whew! Can we just sit in what a responsibility this is?!?
One of my responsibilities in this role requires me to follow one calling God has placed in my life: to empower others.
The power of my voice with my children, it carries such weight.
I fail often.
My children are young and they spend much time with me, which means they see the best of me and the worst of me. They are there when I share carefree joy of playing with them in the backyard or I fall apart over the messy house.
Yet, in both the best of me and the worst of me moments, especially as a Christian mother I have a responsibility to teach them, to empower them.
“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. I persevered in demonstrating among you the marks of a true apostle, including signs, wonders and miracles.”
I learn the most in the “worst of me” moments. It amazes me how some days I turn to God when I feel weak right away, and other days it takes for me to be at my “wits end” to finally surrender the situation to Him.
“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.”
In those harder moments, those are the days I forget where my power comes from. Those are the days I need to fall at my Heavenly Father’s feet, surrender the struggle, find peace in His arms, and let Him empower me.
God is waiting for me to fall at His feet, waiting for me to ask Him for power, for His will in my life.
“I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.”
And it’s in those moments after surrender, where I have another responsibility. I have the responsibility after my moments of where I see failure in myself, to show them how to grow from failure. It’s in those moments where they see me fail, that I need to show them where God comes in. And I need to share the power He gave me in my surrender with them.
Where are the weaknesses in your life? Where do you have hardness in your heart? Where do you lack self control?
What would surrendering to God look like for you?
Where can you show others where your power comes from?
If you're not a believer reading this, have you thought about God in this way?
