Power Boost

I think all of us have good plans for our lives. We want to be good people and do amazing things but somewhere along the journey of life, we come to a point where we feel powerless to actually do the things we want to do and become the people we want to be. This is not anything new. In fact, it seems to be the human condition from the beginning of time. There have always been people who wanted good things however they lacked the power. This had been the norm throughout history...UNTIL about two thousand years ago there was a community of people. They were followers of a certain Rabbi named Jesus. This Jesus, would walk around telling this community they kind of people they can be and the good things they can accomplish. For about 3 years they lived, ate, slept and did life together. Everything was going well for this community until one day the unthinkable happened. Their Rabbi was arrested. He was beaten. And finally he was crucified on a cross and laid in a tomb.

This community was shattered. They once again came to the conclusion that they lacked the power to be the people they wanted to be. They even stopped pursuing the life they had been working towards the last 3 years and went back to their old way of life. THEN something incredible happened. These people started to live differently. They started to live differently. They had passion and confidence. When people asked what had changed they had an amazing answer. These people believed that their Rabbi had actually been raised from the dead. And not only that, they believed that the same power that raised Jesus from the dead actually lived within them. They actually believed that! And they started living differently. They actually believed that they now had the power to live the lives and become the people they wanted to be. And guess what? They did it. They actually lived it out! And in the process they changed the course of human history.

My question is simple. Today there are many more people who claim to have the same spirit within them that this community did. How come we are not having the same impact as they did? Could it be that we don't actually believe it like they did? Could it be that we may read it in our Bibles and hear it in sermons but we don't really believe? And here is the real question, what if we started to believe it? What if we started to actually believe we had the same power that raised Jesus from the dead living inside of us? What if we actually believed Jesus when he said that we will do greater things then he did because of this power? What would happen to our families? What would happen to our neighborhoods? What about our schools? Our churches? Our cities? Our states? Our countries? Our World?