Power Verses…… “Human wisdom is so tinny, so impotent, next to the seeming absurdity of God. Human strength cannot begin to compete with God's "weakness"." (1 Corinthians 1:25 The Message" Translation.)

 This phrase is so true, “God does big things with small deeds.”

I read this week of a doctor who gave his time and talent to treat some of the 12,500 evacuees of New Orleans caught up in Hurricane Katrina who ended up in San Antonio, Texas. One survivor told him a riveting story. As the waters rose around his house, he swam out of the window. With two children clinging to his back, the man found safe refuge on top of the tallest building in the area. Other people began to join him on the roof. Soon a small circle of people huddled together on what would be their home for three days until they were rescued.
After an hour on the building, the man realized he was on the roof of a church. He patted the rooftop and announced to the others, “We are on holy ground.” His news jogged the memory of another roof dweller. She looked around the area, crawled over to the steeple, hugged it, and proclaimed, “My grandparents help build this church!”
Do you think those grandparents ever imagined God would use their work to save their granddaughter?  They would have surely prayed to use that building to save souls….but they couldn’t have imagined He would use it to save their grandchild from the force of a hurricane. They had no idea how God would use the work of their hands.  Nor do you.

What impact do selfless deeds have? Perhaps you are a regular reader of the weekly Power Surge and your life is at this very moment at a crossroads. Maybe the simple reading of this week’s message will ignite the divine spark within, and you will discover the right road to take at your personal crossroads. Follow your inner promptings and you’ll be amazed at the positive outcome.
Just one step forward, every success starts with one step! Begin, just begin. What seems small to you might be huge to someone else. Such was the experience of Bohn Fawkes.
During World War 11, he piloted a B-17. On one mission he sustained flack from Nazi antiaircraft guns. Even although his fuel tanks were hit, the plane did not explode, and Fawkes was able to land it.
On the morning following the raid, Fawkes asked his crew chief for the German shell. He wanted a souvenir of his incredible good fortune. The crew chief explained that not just one but eleven shells had been found in the fuel tanks, none of which had exploded.
Technicians opened the shells and found them void of explosive charges. They were clean and harmless and with one exception, empty. The exception contained a carefully rolled piece of paper. On it a message had been written in the Czech language. Translated the note read; “This is all we can do for your now.”
A courageous assembly line worker was disarming bombs and scribbling notes. He couldn’t end the war but he could save one plane. He couldn’t do everything, but he could do something, and it had a wonderful impact for good.

“God does big things with small deeds.”

Against a towering giant, five flat pebbles seemed futile, but God used one of them to topple Goliath. Compared to the gifts of the wealthy, the widow’s few pennies seemed so insignificant, but Jesus told the story to inspire us to greater achievements.

"Take a good look friends, at who you were when you got called into this life. I don't see many of the 'brightest and the best' among you, not many influential, not many from high-society families. Isn't obvious that God chose men and women that the culture overlooks, and exploits and abuses, chose those "nobodies" to expose the hollow pretensions of the "somebodies."" (1 Corinthians 1:27, 28 "The Message" Translation.)

And in total contrast, with sophisticated priests full of their own importance, and Roman rulers who thought they were invincible, a cross suspended carpenter seemed nothing but a wasted life. Few Jewish leaders mourned his death. Only a handful of friends buried his body. What power could a buried rabbi have? 

Power over death and the grave......  
         Power to change history......
                  Power to transform millions of lives......
                           Power to bring hope to the desperate, the destitute and the dying......

 So, “Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.”

And remember: “God does big things with small deeds.”