So, today I was looking up definitions of omnipotence, and I (well, Dustin) came across this one from Wikia.com, a website for fictional fandom (comics, TV shows, The Marvel universe, etc):
Omnipotence (from Latin: Omni Potens: "all power") is the ability to be almighty in every sense and aspect. The user can achieve and do absolutely anything without any limit or condition, including the conceptually impossible and logically impossible, like "bigger than infinity" or "making a squared circle". Its one and only wielder (there can be only one in each fictional continuity, hence the "Above All") is fundamentally invincible, completely immune to all other powers, and able to defeat the combined might of all creation and its mightiest beings just by wanting it, without the slightest effort.
I like this definition.
So, following this logic, I was thinking about God’s
omnipotence, and realizing that any being I have seen in fiction that has been
“all powerful,” has always been a super-villain—someone to be feared. And yet,
the being whom we believe in—the actual Omnipotent One—is love incarnate. The
only one who actually does have power greater than the sum of the universe is… love.
And therefore it can be said that since God is love, then Love is the greatest
power. Love is a person. Hate destroys people and traps them in oppression and pain.
Love, however, builds people up and brings them to their fullest potential.
God is love, and therefore cannot do anything apart from love. His attributes are not separate entities.
God is love, and therefore cannot do anything apart from love. His attributes are not separate entities.
I feel like someone very comic-book-savvy is going to
correct me here by showing me some character I don’t know about—and there are
plenty I don’t know about. But I’m guessing that character is at best neutral and
unpredictable, but not the embodiment of love itself…
God is also omnipresent… so the all-powerful one (who
could destroy the entire universe with a word) is present in all places at all
times. He is continuously accessible to each of us. And He chooses to love, to
build us up, to work all things for our good.
When we think about His power, we are tempted to try
to use it for our gain by praying for things we want. And if He doesn’t
deliver, we are also tempted to think He is not as powerful as He says He is.
But remember He is not our slave, and He makes His own choices. We therefore
must trust His ultimate wisdom in the choices that He makes concerning us
(because, after-all, He is all-knowing).
The omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent one is love
incarnate. Isn’t that awesome?
