Believe in the Power of God, not the power of man
There is a subtle disease infecting modern souls. It is not atheism in the loud sense. It is something quieter:
We believe in God — but we trust in man.
We trust:
- systems more than Providence
- strategy more than grace
- influence more than prayer
And then we wonder why peace has vanished.
The moment faith shifts from the Creator to the creature, anxiety takes the throne.
The First Lie Still Echoes
The serpent did not say, “There is no God.”
He said, “You can be like God.”
That lie now wears technology, politics, expertise, and social power.
We are told man will fix suffering, engineer morality, redesign the human person, and perfect society.
But man detached from God does not become divine.
He becomes disordered.
A branch does not become freer when cut from the vine. It withers.
The Show of Human Power
Human power is loud, impressive, and temporary.
Empires fall. Leaders change. Movements burn out. Trends reverse.
Man’s power is fireworks.
God’s power is the sun.
One dazzles briefly.
The other sustains life.
Catholic hope has never rested in governments, parties, institutions, or personalities.
Our hope hangs on a Cross.
And the Cross does not look like power to those who worship power.
God’s Power Wears the Disguise of Weakness
God saved the world not with force, but with surrender.
Not with dominance, but with sacrifice.
Not with control, but with love.
Man’s power says: “Make it happen.”
God’s power says: “Trust Me.”
The world calls surrender defeat.
Calvary calls it victory.
Even Our Prayers Have No Power Alone
Here is the humbling truth modern Christians forget:
Prayer is not powerful because we pray.
It is powerful because Christ prays in us.
Apart from Him, our words are sound.
In Him, they become grace.
We do not storm heaven by effort.
We are carried into heaven through the Son.
The holiest saint, the most fervent intercessor, the soul who fasts and weeps — none of them move God by human strength.
They move Him because Christ unites their prayer to His own eternal offering to the Father.
Even our holiness is borrowed.
Even our faith is given.
Even our prayer is participation.
The branch does not produce life.
The vine does.
Why Modern Hearts Are So Afraid
If everything depends on human strength, everything can collapse at any moment.
If salvation depends on politics — despair.
If it depends on culture — confusion.
If it depends on us — exhaustion.
But if salvation depends on God, then even in ruin there is hope.
The saints lived through plagues, corrupt rulers, wars, and persecutions. Yet they had peace.
Why?
They knew history was in pierced hands.
The Catholic Difference
Catholics build, work, vote, teach, serve, and sacrifice.
But we know something the world forgets:
Grace does the saving. We do the cooperating.
Five loaves in our hands feed no one.
In Christ’s hands, they feed thousands.
A Rosary said in pride is noise.
A Rosary said in union with Christ moves eternity.
The Freedom of Trust
Believing in God’s power means:
- I do my duty; God carries the results.
- I remain faithful without seeing outcomes.
- I choose holiness over success.
- I trust Christ more than my effort.
Because success fades.
Union with Christ endures forever.
Final Truth
When man believes in man, pride grows.
When man believes in his own prayer, subtle pride grows.
When man believes in God alone, souls grow.
History is not carried by the capable.
It is carried by the surrendered.
Catholic America does not need more confidence in human strength.
It needs deeper trust that every grace, every victory, every answered prayer flows from one source: Jesus Christ.
Without Him, we can do nothing.
With Him, even weakness becomes omnipotence.
