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WHAT IS POWER?
What are some of the typical descriptions we find when discussion power?
How do we define power?
Typically, it seems that our understanding of power is based on one’s ability to influence or impact the world around them.
Another way that I have thought about power is one’s ability to express their freedom.
The more power you have, the more you are able to do whatever it is you want to do.
The less power you have, the less freedoms are afforded to you.
I am not talking about freedoms in any constitutional sense but in terms of the individual sense.
Freedom in the way it is described in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, as the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action.
The world we live in usually causes us to view power in seven different ways.
Legitimate/Titular Power
This power is one that is found in positions of authority where ones title or status grants them the privilege of influential power over those that are appointed underneath.
The power of being the chief decision maker on behalf and for the course of other people.
Coercive Power
Holding influence over others through power expressed through the fear of consequences.
The power of leveraging potential consequences to enact obedience in others.
Expert Power
Power that is inherited through insight one gains in the experience, knowledge, and study of a specific topic.
The power of being the most informed regarding decision making in specific areas.
Informational Power
Influence of exclusive information that is not accessible to the majority of people.
The power of having advantageous information that is not commonly known.
Power of Reward
The power of influence that comes with the ability to reward those who are obedient to direction.
Power of Connection
The power of connection is essentially the power of influence by proxy.
You know someone with power and have them leverage that power on your behalf.
The power of knowing someone in higher authority, or juxtaposed authority to then enact their power for someone else’s benefit.
Quid pro quo.
Referent Power
The power of influence based on the quality of relationship with those one is influencing.
Think of close friends and family and how the nature of those relationships have great influence over the decision you make.
DIFFERENT KIND OF POWER
There are aspects of most of these types of power within the character of God that we can find in Scripture, with the exception of the power of connection.
Our Father is the King of all creation with authority matched by none and there is matchless power in His sovereignty.
God also has power in His judgement and the Word tells us that we ought have reverence in the presence of the Almighty.
God is also omniscient and by which He carries the power of information but also the power of expertise.
There is also power in the blessings of spiritual fruitfulness that come with the obedient heart unto God our Sustainer.
And there is also power in the relationship that God has with His people.
But there is a different kind of power altogether that Jesus modeled in his life on earth.
That is the power that comes with humility and servanthood.
The power that humility brings is one of transcendence and enlightenment.
This is the power of freedom from self, and from the influence of others.
This power opens our eyes to reality that we do not operate by the same rules as the world around us but we are not even playing the same game.
We are made holy, set apart for God’s good pleasure.
It is walking in the humility of this purpose that we are called do that gives us the true power and freedom that comes from living a life intended for God’s purpose.
DIFFERENT KIND OF WAR
Jesus modeled this different kind of power because he knew that we were fighting a different kind of war.
The wars that we wage are against sin, carnal desires, and the spiritual world around us.
We are called to live in a different plane of existence than the one where our main adversaries are human.
Our wars exist on the plane where sin is the influence that brings out the worst in humanity.
It is walking in the humility of Christlikeness, that gives us the power to walk in freedom from a war that has already been won on the cross.
The power of humility in servanthood is in knowing that our freedom has already been determined through the sacrifice of Christ and the wars that we fight are from a position of victory and not uncertainty.
DIFFERENT KIND OF WEAPONS
Because we know that we fight a different kind of war, we also know that we fight using different weapons.
The Weapons We Fight With
The Weapons Used Against Us
What are the weapons that will be used against us?
Pride
Self interest
DIFFERENT KIND OF ACTION
The more we read this book, the more I understand that there are direct connections between the different aspects of Jesus’ genius.
It is humility that leads to the surrender of self through servanthood that gives us power of uncompromised freedom but it also initiates empathy which allows us to genuinely love and care for our neighbor.
All of this power we are called to walk in is founded in Christ and is realized in us through the transformation of our mind and heart by way of the Holy Spirit.
Where there is humility there can be no pride.
Where there is generosity, there can be no greed.
Where there is servanthood, there can be no obligation.
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