We know our power source.

1 John 5:19 We know that we are of God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. We are encouraged today to know that if we believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as God’s provision in the flesh for salvation and have the testimony of His love by the Spirit, that God is the source of our lives. He is our power source. If God, who is love, is the source of our lives, then it makes sense that faith and love would be the fruit of our lives. Being born of God, we abide in Him. It is a comforting truth that we lie in His lap, so to speak. We are protected by His power, and we can’t be snatched out of that place of love, safety, and comfort. In stark contrast, everyone who isn’t in Christ, lies in the lap, in the power, of the evil one. I’m reminded of Jesus’ scathing rebuke of the Pharisees in John 8:43-44. “Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot hear My word. You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies. Paul also verified this great reality when he wrote to the Ephesians in 2:1-3. And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience. Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. The whole world lies in the power, under the influence of the evil one. The only power capable of rescuing or saving anyone in the world from the power of the evil one is Jesus Christ. God sent His Son as “the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.” 1 Jo. 2:2. John didn’t mean Jesus would save everyone in the world, he was saying that Jesus, through His propitiation for sins, is the only one God has provided to save anyone in the world who lies in the power of by the evil one. The evil one can’t snatch us out of Jesus’ lap, but Jesus can snatch them out of his lap. Our living to love with Jesus on a daily basis is the way God snatches those laying in the lap of the evil one. His love reaches into their hearts through hundreds of small and big acts and words of love. Don’t underestimate the power of God in your life as you love with Jesus. Remember, your power source is God!