"May
you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand
fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and
power that comes from God. Now
all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within
us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think."
Facebook COO, Sheryl Sandberg’s book, “Lean In” was at
the top of the New York Times Bestseller list again last week. All across the
country, reading circles have been formed for women and men to discuss
Sandberg’s thesis of why women have not excelled and achieved in the
corporation Boardrooms. She shares many
lessons and has done a great job of chunking down those lessons into obvious
actions that can be learned and acted upon. One of those is when she writes of
women not seeking the power seats in meetings. She says that women don’t go for
the seats at the table (and I would add, to the middle of the table) and
instead will sit at the seats off of the table. In my experience, she is right
and this is something that can change and we as men, need to not only accept,
but should encourage this shift until it becomes a non-issue.
As believers, our power seat is not to be in the middle
of the table. Our power seat is to be as
close to the Father as we can be, but we get there in a totally different way
and for a different reason. First of all,
the reason we want to be close to the Father is not to be powerful in His eyes
or in the eyes of others. It is instead
it is to seek to receive His power so that we can give glory to Him in all that
we do. Secondly, we can’t earn or push
our way for His power. Instead, all we
have to do is accept and allow ourselves to become powerless. How ironic but
how beautiful God’s ways are different than the world’s. The less we are, the
more we are given. The least of us are the greatest. Those who spend their
lives to humanly excel and achieve, the less God has room to do His work though
us. So, today, consider the power seat
that we are seeking. Is it the right one?
Reference: Ephesians 3:19-20 (New Living Translation)
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