Itaipu Dam, on a stretch of the Paraná River that forms the boundary between Brazil and Paraguay, is the world’s largest operational hydroelectric power plant. In 1995, a decade after it opened, the U.S. magazine Popular Mechanics listed it as one of the seven wonders of the modern world. By 2000 it was generating over 90 billion kilowatt-hours of power each year, enough to supply 93% of the electrical power consumed by Paraguay’s 5.5 million people and 20% of that consumed by Brazil’s 184 million. That’s a lot of power!
The river flowed there for thousands of years before the dam, of course, which means that the potential for all that power was also there, untapped, until someone set out to harness it. The spiritual power that God makes available to us can be likened to that river: There is tremendous potential there, but it doesn’t do us any good until we acknowledge its existence, recognize its potential, and learn to use it.
You don’t have to take anyone else’s word for it. Put God to the test! Flip the switch of decision to connect with Him through His Son, Jesus. Once you have experienced God for yourself, there won’t be any doubt in your mind that He is who He says He is—our ever-present, all-powerful, all-knowing, all-loving Creator.
Text adapted from Activated magazine. Image 1 courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image 2 (foreground) by pngimg.com; background in public domain.
