Energy
Peg and I (and Michael) just returned from a great vacation in the GA mountains. We had a very restful time and came back refreshed and ready to get back to reaching our city for Jesus!
A few years ago my brother-in-law gave us a cooler for the car that plugs into a car outlet. It has a fan and a motor that have to be running to keep everything cool but it is useless unless it is plugged into a power source. The fan and motor have to do their work but they can’t work without energy.
I read a powerful verse in Colossians while I was away. Paul is writing about all the work he is doing to point people to Jesus. And then he shares this in Colossians 1:29, “To this end I labor, struggling with all his energy, which so powerfully works in me.”
Paul says the energy source for all of his work is God. He has work to do but the energy to do that work is God. It struck me very deeply when I read that. I am guilty of struggling through my “work” under my own power instead of the power of God.
Notice Paul says that the energy he gets from God is a powerful energy. That same powerful energy is available to me and to you. I just have to make sure I am plugged into the right energy source. I want the power of God to work in my life. I want the power of God to sustain my life. I want the power of God to be my energy source.
So I am striving in my life to ask myself everyday…who is the source of your energy today? Yourself or God?
Just some thoughts,
Jeff.
