In the movie, Days of Thunder, Cole Thunder (Tom Cruise) when asked by his girlfriend why he races 200 miles per hour NASCAR stock cars, haughtily answers, "I want to be able to control that which is out of control." Our text for today raises the question: Are we unable to control anything? "What gives life is God's Spirit; man's power is of no use at all." 

A little while later in the film, while in the middle of a heated argument because Cole has just previously chased a taxi cab, recklessly and violently, around a hotel parking lot, his girlfriend points her index finger at his face and says, "Listen Cole, you better wake up out of your little dream land and learn what everybody else in the world knows, that people are not in control of anything, we are finally and ultimately powerless…