Power Unlimited!

Even in the secular world, there are some on whom authority rests easily on the shoulders. They do not want to make a show of it and they know their limits well enough. Very few would have the feeling that they control the universe. They would be fit candidates for the asylum and rightly so. Likewise in the spiritual world, there are those believers in Jesus who understand the total authority that He had over spiritual forces while living here on earth. They also realize that He had absolute authority in every other sphere too but He did not make use of it; especially in the social and political arena during His time. In fact, even Jesus continually spoke of His authority as delegated and granted to Him. 

Now in the church today, one thing that we always ought to acknowledge and reaffirm is that our authority too is delegated. Jesus spoke in Mathew 28 that all authority was granted to Him and therefore we can function in that because we are united with Him. However He is the Head and He alone directs that power and authority towards the glory of God. It either proceeds directly from Him or it indirectly brings the glory back to Him. Let us constantly remind ourselves of this. This is the only way we could find authority resting easily on us as well. Or else we could be playing with fire and can burn ourselves badly along the way.