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If you’ve been coming the past few weeks, you know I’ve been going through a series called God Is, looking at the attributes, the character of God. What that means for us and each one is a challenge in its own way. Beginning with the trinity which is much more of a challenge on an intellectual level, trying to understand and comprehend this relational God who is a community from the very beginning. There’s a God who is holy and that’s been one that is challenging because how do I communicate to you what you’re supposed to feel when you stand before a holy God. The unholiness that you feel, there’s no way of communicating that intellectually. And every one has been a challenge in its own way.

This morning I feel like it is very challenging, the one I’m preaching on this morning. Because I feel like this topic strikes at the deepest core of who we are. Of our past hurts, of our present challenges, and as we look ahead to the future, some of the challenges that we face in the future. And that is that God is Omnipotent. That God is all powerful. And I think talking about the God who is all powerful, at least in me, stirs up some emotion because some of us, I believe, look back on our past and say, “Okay, I believe God is all powerful, but if he’s all powerful, then why was He not all powerful in this situation that I faced? You know, why was He not powerful enough to prevent what I went through?” And I think some of us as well as the challenges we face in the present and looking ahead to the future. At the core of us, feeling these fears, anxieties and desperately needing God to be all powerful, omnipotent God. To be able to overcome our weakness, our fears, our insecurities, our anxieties.

And so that’s the challenge this morning is that this I feel strikes at the very core of a lot of our hurts, our anxieties. As I was preparing a lot of these passages, the verses, there’s one that has really, that’s speaking to me right now. 1 Corinthians 2:1-5. And as I prepare to preach, I think that this is pretty relevant. Here’s what Paul wrote to the Corinthian church. “When I came to you brothers, I did not come with eloquence or superior wisdom, as I proclaimed to you the testimony of our God. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you, except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. I came to you in weakness and fear and with much trembling. My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with demonstration of the Spirit and power so that your faith might not rest on men’s wisdom but on God’s power.”

What a powerful passage. I come here before you today and I feel like I am, if there’s ever been a Sunday that I’ve been here in my three years where I didn’t want to preach, it’s probably this one. I feel like I’m, I just had a very hard week, very difficult week. Don’t feel in this place where I’m ready to get up there and use eloquence and superior wisdom in any way, shape or form. And I feel like the only thing I can offer to you is thank God, Jesus Christ has been crucified, and the Word of God, the power of God prayerfully. So that is what we need. That is what I need, I need to focus on today. So let’s pray together…