It’s May 4th, which has come to be known as Star Wars Day:

I was able to celebrate on Saturday by taking my son David and grandson Davis, visiting from Atlanta, to the Space Discovery Center in Colorado Springs, where we built a “lightsaber.” I say, “we” – Davis says, “Look what I built…and Daddy helped.” Actually, it may not look like much, but it was very much an adult project. Davis “helped” by cutting the electrical tape and staying out of the way.

Maybe that’s the way effective ministry happens. It’s God’s work, and he allows us to “help.”

I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. (John 15.5, NIV)

I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us. (Ephesians 3.16 – 20, NIV, emphasis mine)

Truly, may (God’s) force be with you!