I've Got the Power!

I bought one of those ‘energy drinks’ one time when I was having a hard time staying awake. I don’t know what half of the ingredients were, but there was a big dose of caffeine in it as well as a lot of ‘root’s and ‘extracts’ so I figured it must be full of energy. I took it back to the office fully expecting to get a surge of power that would enable me to get all my work done in record time.

I drank the entire can and started working. I waited for the boost. Within ten minutes it hit me. Not the rush of energy, but the overwhelming desire to put my head down and sleep. I kept working, knowing it was going to take a little time for all those nutrients, caffeine and root extracts to get into my system, but it never happened. In fact, the only thing I got out of the energy drink was a terrible case of the shakes as my blood sugar dropped about an hour after I drank it. No energy, no rush, no power.

I’ve never bought another one.

Maybe they do work for some people. They sure sell a lot of those ‘energy drinks.’ But it did nothing for me.

Wouldn’t it be nice to have power when you needed it?

I’ve found that if I eat well, exercise some, and sleep when I’m tired, I usually do have the energy I need throughout the day. A steady diet of healthy things seems to give me what I need.

The same is true in our Christian walk. A steady diet of healthy things will give us the power we need. We need to consume God’s word to keep us healthy. We need to exercise daily in prayer, meditation, and study. We need to rest in the promises of God so we will have the energy needed to walk the walk daily.

Paul says in Ephesians 3:14-21, “For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge – that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do immeasurable more that all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.”

We have the power!

Think about it!