Walking in the Spirit of Jabez
Friday, August 27, 2021
Thursday, August 19, 2021
Addiction to Power
Rev. Lonnie C. Crowe
A prevailing stronghold in America and the rest of the
world is an addiction to power. That addiction has led to division and corruption The situation
calls to mind Lord Acton who said, “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power
corrupts absolutely.”
A desire for power causes us to deny our role and to
blame-shift. A desire for power will cause people to seek positions to which
they are not called. A desire for power causes
us to form opinions based on our own desires rather than upon knowledge and
reason.
Remember the words of Paul to his disciple Timothy:
2 Timothy 3:1-5 “But know this, that in the last days
perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of
money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of
good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of
God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people
turn away!
The above is not only a description of the world today. It is
also a description of many in the Body of Christ.
In “10 Ways Christians Weaponize the Bible”, Joseph Mattera
writes, “10. When we demand biblical ethics that we are not living
ourselves. When
we use the Bible as a particular standard (in the church or home) that we are
not willing to live by, we are weaponizing the Bible against others to have our
way.”
We cannot, in authority, declare scriptures like Isaiah
33:22 over our nation if we have not submitted to the truth that “the Lord is
our Judge, the Lord is our Lawgiver, the Lord is our King; He will save us”.
The root of our problem is a spiritual one that has
manifested in the political realm. The
axe must be laid at the root.