WHAT ARE YOU HOOKED UP TO?
Why Christians Doubt Sun

Ephesians 1:15-21
15 For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, 16 I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. 17 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. 18 I pray also 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 the saints, 19 and His incomparably great power for us who believe. That power
is like the working of his mighty strength, 20 which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms, 21 far above all rule and authority, power, and dominion, and every title that can be given, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.

My son Steve loves to putter around with his car. He's "tricking it out," as he says, with all kinds of lights and extra features. There's neon under the dash and lights on the license plate bolts and even a thin line of lights on the gearshift boot.

One day he was moving some wires around to hook up a CB radio. As he worked on it, I suggested that I heard a noise that didn't sound right. Kind of a humming noise. Steve (who is aware that I know as little about cars as he knows about being a writer) assured me the sound was outside. He's the expert, so I figured it was the neighbor's bug zapper or something.

A couple of hours later, he asked me to go out and check out his latest gadgets with him. When he went to flick the toggles and light things up, nothing happened. That humming sound had been from something Steve had accidentally hot-wired and it had run down the battery. He had connected a wire to the wrong location, and it cost him power.

Has that ever happened to you?

I'm not talking about cars now. I'm talking about you. And me. Sometimes we get hooked up to the wrong things in life, and all they do is zap our power and run our spiritual batteries down to nothing.

For instance, what happens when we hook up our wires to a spirit of arguing and complaining. That'll wear us down in
a hurry. Or if we chase after things that are less-than-godly. The power drain on our spiritual life when that happens is
sudden and devastating.

Sadly, we sometimes hook up to things that zap our power instead of to God's "incomparably great power." That's the power that flowed through Jesus and raised Him from the dead. That power in our lives is available, the Bible says. It is "like the working of [God's] mighty strength" (Ephesians 1:19-20), and it will never leave us powerless.

Are you hooked up to Jesus through prayer, fellowship, and the powerful teachings of the Bible? If not, your battery will
run down. --Dave Branon

DESTINATION POINTS

* Do I really make an effort to have my energy come from God--or am I hooked up to about 20 other things?
* What specific things can I do that will help me understand and experience the power of God?
* What has happened to me that I know came about only through God's power?

bottom line: Our power is finite; God's power is infinite!

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