It is the Power of God
As I began to type today my laptop told me the battery was low, and so I plugged it in to a power outlet. Through this invisible electricity, thanks to power plants hundreds of miles away from my home burning fuel, my laptop keeps working and I can continue. Much of what we do depends upon electricity, and yet we rarely think about it until our power goes out. To me this is perhaps not unlike the atonement of Jesus Christ through which we also gain power. It is fitting that much of the electricity that comes into our homes is carried upon wooden power poles that look like crosses on all our streets. We obtain power to our devices and machines and lights because of the electricity that runs through those power lines held up by pieces of wood fastened together perpendicularly. And so too do we gain power through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ who was lifted up upon two pieces of wood held together perpendicularly. The apostle Paul wrote, “For the preaching of the cross is to them that per...