The VA has ordered a power chair for me that should arrive before Christmas. It will improve the quality of my life in many ways. I still intend to use my walker at least once a day to keep my legs from becoming too weak. It is a top of the line model with a whole lot of features. When they brought one by to fit me for it, I tried it out. With all those controls, it felt like I was in the pilot seat ready for takeoff. It is battery powered and will travel 20 miles on a full charge. I will just have to be careful not to call it my “electric chair”. The chair I’m sitting in now is actually plugged into electricity, but it does not take me anywhere except up or down and until now it has not electrocuted me.
All of this leads me to think about power sources. Discussing power can be confusing at times. When we buy a car, the salesman tells us the horse power of the combustion engine. There are no horses involved, but the power is equivalent to that many horses pulling the vehicle. When we talk about atomic power, we usually refer to electric power produced by atomic energy. A noted atomic physicist once wrote that there is as much atomic energy in a pound of rose petals as there is in a pound of uranium. That is because when God created our Universe and everything in it the building material He used were tiny particles of energy we call atoms. No matter how solid my chair or the walls of my townhome seem to be, they are clumps of energy formed by craftsmen using the energy material God produced. You and I are also created from those same tiny particles of God’s creative energy.
I have mentioned many times that I depend heavily on God’s power to get me from room to room on my walker, even though I’m doing my very best. That won’t change with the use of my new mobile chair. Looking back, I realize that God has been the source of power in my life since the moment I knelt before Him and prayed in Jesus’ name. It is His power that has brought me through life so far. It is by His power that I am writing this blog post. It is by His power that I will continue until my tour of duty on Earth is completed.
As Christians, we are not only physically a product of God’s creative energy; we are filled with His Holy Spirit who is our spiritual power source.