True Power
What must it have been like to know the young man Jesus? Such power. Such genius and leadership ability. At the age of twelve, he stumped the smartest scholars around. Thousands upon thousands flocked to hear him speak and to experience the wave of healing that washed out of him to make people new wherever he walked.
To an outside observer, he must have looked like a young leader of amazing potential. Someone to be cultivated — or feared.
But what did this young leader do? At the height of it all, just when things looked like they were really taking off, he gave himself away. He counted it all loss because his Father had other plans for him. In his death, he brought eternity into the present age. He bridged an impossible chasm so that we who are his children may walk straight from one reality into another.
The only person worthy to hold power of any sort is the one who has already given it all away and expects nothing back. The Father grants authority new again every morning, until the day he gives it to someone else. Then you leave it behind, and you cross the bridge, and you see Jesus and forget everything else.
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