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Those Who Are Powerless ...

Wednesday, May 22, 2013. What is the power which God gives to the powerless? Did you ever have the feeling of being powerless? Or is it your main feeling, you never had the impression you had enough power to reach something?

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The feeling to be powerless …

Perhaps you have the feeling that your life is without power and without significance. You are working in a large company, and your job is neither one of the key decision makers nor particularly important for the company as an expert in one of its fields. How important are you? How significant?

Perhaps you are in a responsible position, but you realize that the other leaders around you have played a game which basically does not allow you nor anyone to make real progress. You realize that everyone is more or less using the system for their living, but no one is really making it progress and improve and grow properly. You feel powerless.

There are others, who are faced with some personal illness. Others who are hungry, but there is no food around or they cannot afford it. There are those who suffer in war and natural catastrophe. They realize, that they do not have enough power to change their situation easily. They need to realize that death can be strong, that hope can be far away.

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Where is the Lord? …

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You might ask, when you are in the middle of these situations: where is God? Where is the Lord? How can he help? The biblical books are full of prayers and cries! The believers have gone to the Lord and asked him for help. They have experienced this powerlessness. They have seen the dark days, where nothing seemed to help.

Is it that God wants us to come to this point, where we realize how poor and powerless we are? Is it that he wants us to see that all our plans, all our strength, all our intelligence does not help us? Does he want us to realize that we are completely dependent on him? Yes, this is part of his message.

But how does he want to help us, in the middle of our suffering? How does he want to bring new hope into the hopelessness? How does he want to overcome the difficulties? He has possibilities, where we do not see anything. He has forces we cannot dream of. He is the Lord, the almighty. We are invited to wait for him, and to see his wonders. (Roland Potthast) ... more texts

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