Powerful?

Beautiful, handsome, cute, adorable, loving.  All words commonly used to describe a family.

But, how about strong?  How about powerful?  Now there's a word.  Powerful.  Powerful.  I have never really thought about a family being powerful, that is, until I opened the garage tonight to find that our eldest had written a message for me on a box.  

"Powerful Family"

At first it was cute, then it was challenging, until it became telling.

We are a powerful family.  But why?  What makes us a powerful family?  Is it a bond, a commitment, a love, that makes us powerful?  

The Kennedy family was powerful.  How about the Bush family?  They were powerful, weren't they?  And then of course Paris Hilton and her family.  The Kennedy family, the Bush family, the Hilton's.  All powerful families.  But what kind of power abounds in our family? What kind of power should we seek with all of our heart, our soul, and our mind.  What power do we seek at the forsaking of all others?

It is the one who is powerful that makes us powerful.  My beloved Yeshua said he must go so that one who is better for us must come.  And man, did he make an entrance! 

....WOOSH!!!!!!!

In that first church, flames adorn heads, miracles abound, equality among believers exists.

Powerful.  

Are we a powerful family?  Are you a powerful family?  

We have so much stuff to pour out of our daily lives to even make room for the Holy Spirit to reside in our family.  So much TV, Facebook, cell phone time takes up the space and occupies the time God so graciously gave me today to give back to him.  But I waste it.  We waste it.  We squander it away, daily, and become so much less than we were intended to become.

I want to have a powerful family.  

Imagine what that would even look like?  Not the perfect family; the powerful family.  All members devoted and driving to serve God alone.  How awesome would that be?  I can't force it into existence.  But I can certainly encourage it and pray it into existence.  As a matter of fact, I think I'll do just that.  I'll pray it into existence.  Let's see how powerful we really can become.

"God formed us for His pleasure, and so formed us that we as well as He can in divine communion enjoy the sweet and mysterious mingling of kindred personalities. He meant us to see Him and live with Him and draw our life from His smile.”

AW Tozer, The Pursuit of God