Show me the power

Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen. (Eph 3:20-21)

I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of the strength of His might which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. (Eph 1:18-21)

These passages from the Bible, and others like them, use soaring rhetoric to describe the Christian life. According to them, there is abundant power available to and at work within the Christian, power that is both qualitatively and quantitatively equivalent to the resurrection of Christ from the dead!

Now, if this is true, shouldn't it be somewhat evident to the rest of the world? Shouldn't there be some glimpse of the supernatural in the Christian's life? But there isn't. They are ordinary. They live and love, lie and lust, do good and evil in the same proportions as the rest of the populations they inhabit. So, show me the power.

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