What's your superpower?If you could choose a superpower, what would it be? Flying… invisibility… super strength… X-ray vision… speed? Secretly I know that I would want all the above. But what if there were a “super power” available to us just for the asking? At Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, and God said, “Ask what I shall give you.” 1 Kings 3:5 Solomon, when he comes to the throne, is asked by God what He should give him. Surprisingly, Solomon doesn't ask for wealth or power for length of life. Instead, he asks for wisdom. Can you imagine? In a very real way, the gift has already been given to him…because it is such a wise choice. Solomon knows what his weakness is and asks for the one gift that can strengthen him for the task to which he has been called. Today, countless people call on God for help. Like Solomon, they recognize that one of their greatest needs is wisdom. Many use a prayer offered originally by Reinhold Niebuhr, an American theologian: “God give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things that should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.” Though the first requests are for grace and courage, the power of this prayer comes from the wisdom to know how to move forward. And the giver of this power i.e. “wisdom” is God. I've never thought of wisdom as a superpower... But I suppose if it's God's wisdom, through the power of the Holy Spirit, that will work for me. Blessings,
Matthew+ Almighty God, you have given your only Son to be for us a sacrifice for sin, and also an example of godly life: Give us grace to receive thankfully the fruits of his redeeming work, and to follow daily in the blessed steps of his most holy life; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. (BCP p.232) | 
