The power of God can work through us and empower us to do things that we otherwise would not be able to do. If we were completely paralyzed, for example, we would have to conclude that God has not given us the ability to move. The reason that God does not always meet us in the middle is because the ability that we have has no cause in itself, while God's ability is caused by Himself. If we could compare ability, it would be like the strength or heaviness of a weight that overcomes the opposing weight.The point is that equal weights do not necessarily represent the underlying reasons for explaining the reality of the effort. The reality of the effort is represented by the heavier weight pulling down the other lighter side. So the actual cause is displayed in the movement itself. This is why believing has this confession of mans powerlessness . When we rejoice in Gods power we are acknowledging that we do not cause our own power.When we acknowledge our own powerlessness, we are giving all the credit to God. This is the reality of the world, in light of how we view ourselves as sinners before God. When we say that God is perfect, we are defining it as Christ being the only man worthy of that perfection because He was sinless. When we say that Christ was sinless, we are acknowledging that we are corrupted in every part. We are admitting that no good dwells in us, so that we might understand in a deeper way that Christ's death produced all the good, and that we might know who we are in Christ. It is a fact that what is good is something we must be aware of in order to tap into our full potential. By understanding the dichotomy between good and evil, we can better understand ourselves and where our abilities come from. If we want to truly understand ourselves, we need to get our energy from a real source. When we say that there is a view of life in which we feel sense experience ability, we are saying that we have a rational understanding of were the causes of all these experiences originate. If we do not have the correct understanding of how we should live in this world, then the effort we put into this understanding will be wasted and will determine the way we live. This is why God works through us, so that when the apostle says "I want to know you power," he is saying that the power will come from God and that the apostle will be able to experience this power through both the metaphysical connection and the physical enabling. The apostle is confessing that he is weak and it is the grace of God that enables him to experience the flow of power from God.