Attached and Empowered

March 11

What Are You Attached To?

Once, A.J. Gordon went to a World’s Fair. The American Baptist preacher, writer, composer, and founder of Gordon College and Gordon–Conwell Theological Seminary saw something curious from a distance. It looked like a man pumping water with one of those old hand pumps. The water was gushing out.

“That man is really pumping water hard,” said Gordon. But when he got closer, he discovered that the man was wooden, and his form was attached to a pump powered by electricity. The man was not pumping the water, the water was pumping him. To what are you attached? Are you driving it, or is it driving you? –Anonymous

“…who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began,” II Timothy 1:9.

What are you attached to? Unless your answer is that you are attached to Jesus, the “Author and Finisher of our faith,” Hebrews 12:2, attached to the One who died on a cruel cross to set you free from sin and death, you need to step back and reevaluate your life and your attachments.

The God of Heaven and Earth has indeed “called you with a holy calling…” He has not restricted you from answering His call because of any negligent or naughty works you have done; nor are you absolved from being required to heed His call because of the great accomplishments you have achieved. No. He has called you according to His own purpose and grace; and His calling is from everlasting (see Revelation 13:8).

If you will accept that calling; if you will make that calling the utmost priority of your life, your life will no longer be powered by your own strength, your own will, your own ability, or your own desires. Your life will become supercharged with the might of Heaven behind you.

According to Daniel 11:32, you will be among, “the people that know their God who shall be strong, and do exploits.” HE will tap your ability and empower it for the furtherance of the Kingdom of Christ. HE will glorify Himself through your surrendered service to His eternal purposes.