What makes the temptation of power so great for people? so irresistible? Maybe it is that power offers an easy substitute for the hard task of love. It seems easier for some to be God than to love God, easier to control people than to love people, easier to own life than to love life. Jesus asks, “Do you love me?” We ask, “Can we sit at your right hand and your left hand in your Kingdom?” Matt. 20:21. Ever since the snake
said, “The day you eat of this tree your eyes will be open and you will be like gods, knowing good from evil” Genesis 3:5, we have been tempted to replace love with power.
