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.