All Power Comes From Him

“Let Go and Let God” can be a powerful slogan for those who are trying to get out from under an affliction or the desire to control something or someone uncontrollable. I’ve used it many times, trying to be free of a frustrating situation. I ask God to come, take the problem from my grip, and heal it in only the way He can. Then I sit, hands in my lap, head down, breathing out slowly and back in slowly, accepting and reclaiming my powerless state.

Powerless. The word may bring panic at first when I am under the illusion that it is I who needs to fix everything.  My powerlessness, however, is ultimately beautiful, reminding me of God’s powerful presence, His infinite power, His perfect care for me and my loved ones. I cannot do it, but He can. God is the One from whom all power comes. He is the fount.

Omnipotent. This is the word that singularly applies to God, no one and nothing else. He is all-powerful, He can do all things. He is the ultimate source of love, healing, reconciliation, peace, strength and all things good.  To Him I offer my powerlessness.

When I come to humility, surrender, acceptance and admit that I am powerless, that I am not the source of answers and miracles, I turn to the One who is. He hears my prayers. He moves in my life and in me and shows me His power in all things that He, and He alone, be glorified.

And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.  2 Corinthians 12:9-10