by Jason Stotts
While in the Houston Airport (which was a great time by the way, to be in Texas for 5 hours on a lay-over!) I was sitting in the airport I saw a lot of “different” people. One of these was a, well let us say, “portly gentleman.” Anyway, stretched over his bulbous belly was a shirt that said “I don’t have the power”.
This made me pause (which was probably the intent) and think: “what the hell?” First of all, I wondered what “power” he had lost and secondly how he had lost it. Well, when he turned around his shirt had a bible quote about how the power was god’s and that without god he had no power.
This made me think – it seems true that this man had lost the power, in more ways than one. However, his shirt gave a false cause for why he had lost it. You see Man only has one kind of power, that which stems from his mind. Now of course you’re thinking of physical power right now…but try and lift a finger w/o your mind and see how that goes for you.
One’s mind has a nature, it is volitional, and in order to use it one must give it proper fuel, valid concepts. If you don’t use your mind properly it is powerless.
This man, you see, was right – he had lost the power, but it is because of his faith and not because without god he is powerless.
He lost the power because he abdicated his mind to religion and false gods.