There is power, power...!

Last week we got a card through the door from the Electric people (I imagine them being plugged into the socket...) saying that there would be essential maintenance works going on in Dromore today, and that as a result, our electric would be turned off between the hours of 8am and 7.30pm. When I heard about it, I immediately thought of all the things that couldn't be done without power - no TV, no internet etc.

Then this morning I was lying half awake in bed when it struck me. With no electric, the shower wouldn't work either! I would be unclean, or maybe worse, half-washed with flannels from the sink. Without the means to wash properly, I would be dirty.

Imagine my delight and surprise, then, when I went downstairs to discover mum watching TV! The good news was that there was power - power to be cleansed! When I had thought I would be dirty all day, the good news was that there was a way to be cleaned - all down to the power available.

It made me consider it as a sort of gospel overview. We are helpless in our sins, dirty, and without any way of changing it. but the good news of the gospel is that there is power to be saved and changed and washed and restored - but it doesn't lie in a power shower or the electricity being turned on. No, the power to be washed lies only in the precious blood of Jesus Christ, shed for us on the cross. The old gospel hymn sums up what I'm saying:

Would you be free from the burden of sin?
There’s power in the blood, power in the blood;
Would you o’er evil a victory win?
There’s wonderful power in the blood.

There is power, power, wonder working power
In the blood of the Lamb;
There is power, power, wonder working power
In the precious blood of the Lamb.

Would you be free from your passion and pride?
There’s power in the blood, power in the blood;
Come for a cleansing to Calvary’s tide;
There’s wonderful power in the blood.

There is power, power, wonder working power
In the blood of the Lamb;
There is power, power, wonder working power
In the precious blood of the Lamb.

Would you be whiter, much whiter than snow?
There’s power in the blood, power in the blood;
Sin stains are lost in its life giving flow.
There’s wonderful power in the blood.

There is power, power, wonder working power
In the blood of the Lamb;
There is power, power, wonder working power
In the precious blood of the Lamb.

Would you do service for Jesus your King?
There’s power in the blood, power in the blood;
Would you live daily His praises to sing?
There’s wonderful power in the blood.

There is power, power, wonder working power
In the blood of the Lamb;
There is power, power, wonder working power
In the precious blood of the Lamb.

[And the blood will never lose its power,
No never, no, never,
Jesus' blood avails for me forever,
And will never lose its power.]