Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. (Ephesians 6:10 ESV)
Empowered
Who does not like the idea of becoming empowered? These days, we hear more and more about how grand it would be if the disenfranchised could become empowered. And our society looks for ways to provide that! We attempt to empower through voting, through economic stimulus, through education, through employment, through relationships, through ownership, through military might, and even through diet and exercise.
How are those things working out for you?
Probably not very well. Because those things bring at best, temporary authority and profit… but not really power.
There is only one source of power. There is only one way to empowerment. There is only one way achieve the peace that empowerment offers.
And that way is the Lord Jesus Christ.
All authority on heaven and earth comes only from Him.
If we seek to be strong, Paul writes here, strength comes from the Lord.
Maybe that sounds like religious simplistic idealism.
But it is also the truth.
We are peculiar, we are reliably empowered.