Success and Power

We live in a culture that seeks and admires success and power. Those who lack these much sought-after commodities, or worse, refuse to pursue these popular twins are looked upon as odd or even a bit radical. Yet, in reading the scriptures, we see Jesus posed a "radical" challenge to this dynamic duo of popular culture.

Jesus was not concerned with worldly success or power. He was more interested in seeking and doing the will of the Father, a radical thought even in his day. This is how he would define success and here is where he understood real power to be. Jesus was not interested in how others would measure his success for he knew that his success would be defined through his obedience to the Father. The power he exercised was his ability to act upon the will of the Father, even to the point of death. The possibility that he would be willing to give up his sinless life as a payment for the sins of others, was an even more radical idea and remains so.

Today Jesus continues to pose a threat to the values and priorities of our post-Christian Society. His life, ministry, death, and resurrection still promote a radical view of how we define real success and power.

So let us continue to walk the "radical" path that Jesus walked before us. Let us seek and find the will of God the Father. Let us understand that any power which might flow from our actions must be defined within the absolute power of the life we have given to our Savior so that we may turn away from our cultural preoccupations and seek to walk the path of true success and power.

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