It s also the fuel that burns itself up. It s what leads people to become in-flamed and enraged and, sadly, what impels them to do the horrible things to one another that often splash across the headlines. But these traits are not all-powerful. In fact, an understanding that God is what s all-powerful snuffs them out more thoroughly than a hard rain extinguishes a flickering match. When we define ourselves as God already sees us, we see signs of His saving grace.
False definitions drop away.
Then we see more of how we re made to be immortal, spiritual, Godlike. This trading up is so unheralded, so quiet, it may never grab the TV ratings. It won t feed a voyeuristic hunger. But it can be as powerful in our lives as it was in the lives of the three men who survived the fiery furnace. And the men who survived the POW camps.