day 350: Power Requirements

Last week there was an extensive power outage across the Bay Area. One of my friends is an office manager for a professional services firm and after the report came out that the power would be off over the next 4-8 hours, everyone was sent home. If you wound back 25 years and the power went off it would have been something to be concerned about but work could have still been done. Today, it’s hard to do anything without power. In my friend’s professional services company even the toilets are dependent upon electricity to be able to flush. Net, without power, it’s hard to do anything these days. I could not be posting this if I didn’t have power this morning. We are clearly reliant and maybe over reliant on power in this day and age. We also need some level of power in our careers and jobs to get things done. This is a different type of power, but nonetheless just as important. Being able to influence and get things done through our position and whatever little authority we may have, we come to depend upon as well. Then once we have power, like the power company does with electricity, we have to monitor and ensure that we don’t let our power level surge or become underpowered. The metaphor is interesting. As believers we have the most dependable power source. In Isaiah we read; “He gives power to the weak and strength to the powerless.” Now is a great time to recharge, monitor and plug into the power source that we all need.

Reference: Isaiah 40:29 (New Living Testament)