Daily Inspiration Quote by Jerry B. Jenkins

Power is supposed to announce itself with fireworks: a promotion, a platform, a win that rearranges the room. Jenkins punctures that fantasy with a deadpan admission that reads like someone checking their pulse after being handed a crown and finding it stubbornly normal. The humor is doing real work here. By framing the line as an offhand, almost puzzled observation, he exposes how much of “power” is costume and choreography rather than an internal transformation.

The specific intent feels corrective. In a culture that sells power as a feeling - confidence on tap, dominance as a vibe - Jenkins insists on the banal continuity of the self. Yesterday’s anxieties, habits, and doubts don’t evaporate because the world has granted you authority. That’s the subtext: status changes faster than character. The line also hints at the awkward truth of leadership or visibility: you may be treated differently while feeling identical, which can produce a quiet imposter-syndrome whiplash. People project potency onto you; you’re still you, staring at the same ceiling.

Contextually, coming from a career novelist (and one associated with big, high-stakes narratives), it plays like an antidote to grandiosity. It suggests that “more powerful” is often an external label, not a lived sensation - and that the real test of power isn’t how it feels in your body, but how it shows up in your choices. The joke lands because it demystifies the myth without pretending the consequences aren’t real.