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By Pastor Glenn Pease
Every day of your life you enjoy the pleasure of power.
The power to flip switches and give light in the darkness, and heat in the coldness.
The power of electricity is the source of abundant pleasure.
When we lose that power we are deprived of all our electric devices, and it is a major pain.
All of us have electrical devices and gadgets that no longer work.
They look just as nice as they did when they worked, but they are powerless to give us pleasure anymore.
All the pleasures of life revolve around some kind of power.
Life itself is a form of power, and when that power ceases we are just like an electrical device that no longer works-we are dead.
Power is life and power is pleasure.
The Sun is the source of the power of life on the physical level.
God made it that way, but He is Himself the Sun of our spiritual solar system, and all of our power to have life, and to enjoy it, comes from Him.
The Psalmist says in verse 11, "For the Lord God is a sun and shield, the Lord bestows favor and honor; no good thing does He behold from those whose walk is blameless."
God is our sun, the source of all our pleasure, because He is the source of all our power.
Power and pleasure are linked together as one.
This theme is everywhere in the Psalms.
Here is Psa.
84 verse 5 he says, "Blessed are those whose strength is in you."
Then in verse 7 he says, "They go from strength to strength."
God is the source of all our power, and the whole point of the Christian life is to grow in that power, for that is what the abundant life is all about.
It is about power to achieve the purpose of God in our lives.
Paul said he could do all things through Christ who strengthened him.
This theme is found often in the Psalms.
Psa.
22:19, "O Lord, O my strength haste Thee to help."
Psa.
71:16, "I will go in the strength of the Lord."
Psa.
18:1, "I will love Thee, O Lord my strength."
Psa.
18:32, "It is God who guideth me with strength."
Psa.
27:1, "The Lord is the strength of my life."
Psa.
28:7, "The Lord is my strength."
Psa.
59:17, "Unto Thee, O my strength will I sing."
There are many more, for this theme is one of the major themes of the Old Testament.
God is the source of the power to experience all that is good and pleasurable.
Without Him we are like an electrical appliance that is not plugged in.
We do not function to produce pleasure for God, for others, or for ourselves.
Norman Vincent Peale in most famous book, The Power Of Positive Thinking, tells of the husband and wife who went through a terrible trial.
Bill was the vice president of his company and expected to become the president.
But when the time came he was passed over by a man brought in from the outside.
His wife was furious and insisted that Bill tell them off and quit.
He was reluctant to do so.
Doctor Peale was a good friend, and so they sought his advice.
He urged them to sit in silence before God, and ask Him to give them the power to choose the right way.
They were to plug into their power source, so to speak, and see how the power of God flowing through them would help them function in a way that would please them.
As they waited on the Lord the wife had a change of spirit.
She realized anger and not wisdom was controlling her.
She agreed to encourage Bill to work with the new man to see what would happen.
It turned out that Bill really liked the new president, and the new man consulted with Bill often.
Two years later the president was called to an even better job and Bill became president.
He and his wife were so grateful they did not let the power of anger decide their future.
They let the power of God do it, and the result was great pleasure.
Power to do the will of God is one of life's greatest pleasures.
Weakness that lets the flesh determine our direction in life is one of life's greatest pains.
The great battle of life is between pleasure and pain, and which one dominates is determined by our source of power.
That is why verse 5 says, "Blessed are those whose strength is in you."
Happiness in life means God is the source of our power.
This theme breaks into many parts.
There is-
The power of praise.
The power of prayer.
The power of passion.
The power of priority.
The power of participation.
The power of pursuit.
The power of persistence.
The power of purpose.
The power of possessions.
The power of purity.
The power of prevention.
The power of positive thinking.
All of these and more are themes of power and pleasure in Psalm 84, and the rest of the Psalms.
Power and pleasure are linked to just about any theme you can imagine.
The Bible makes it clear that how we look at life makes all the difference in the world in how much power we have to enjoy the pleasures that also please God.
The power to focus, for example, is a key power for enjoying the pleasures of life.
Jesus said in Matt.
6:34, "Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry for itself.
Each day has enough trouble of its own."
Jesus is saying the power to focus on today, and the problems in front of your face right now, and not be filled with anxiety about the future, is a key to the good life.
The Pilgrims in Psa.
84 are focused on making every day a day of praise, and a day of victory.
Even in those days where they must pass through the valley of Baca, the focus is on making it a place of springs.
The power to make every day a day of progress is a basic pleasure of life.
Alcoholics Anonymous has used this principle to help millions of drinkers get power over their lives again.
They teach them to break their life down into manageable segments.
One day at a time is their slogan.
Don't worry about staying sober the rest of your life, but just stay sober today, and just start by staying sober this hour.
Success comes by the power to gain control of your life by taking hold of small enough chunks of it.
Try and deal with all of life, or even a year of it, and you lose control.
Just grab hold of now, and do what is best, and you will grow in your power to control your life.
Those who ride bicycles say it is easier to ride a bike up a hill at night than in the day time.
Some terribly hard hills have been negotiated at night that are practically impossible in day light.
The reason being, at night the cyclist can only see the few feet his lights hit in front of him.
He feel he can go that few more feet, and so he keeps on.
But in the day light he sees the whole hill, and the whole problem at once.
He is overwhelmed by the enormity of the task, and his strength is sapped.
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