Sunday Reflection: When the Lights Go Out
I
really hate when my electricity goes off. However, in all fairness, my electric
company keeps my power on during the worst of times, except in January of 2007—the ice storm. While my parents, the neighbors across the road and my sister’s electricity (different
electric companies) had gone off when the storm hit, my electricity remained
on, but only for two days. Then all around me transformers blew up, crackling and popping along with the ice burdened branches on the frozen trees that soared to the ground.
Eight days doesn’t seem like a lot of time, out of a lifetime, unless you’re in
the dark and you’re cold.
The
world we live in often resembles a dark storm where people hurt each other, evil
triumphs, the innocent suffer, and the earth is abused for gain. The reality is that
we probably have more good days than bad ones, but somehow eight days of darkness has more power, in my mind, over the thousands of good days with light.
“The sun will no
more be your light by day, nor will the
brightness of the moon shine on you,
for the Lord will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.
for the Lord will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.
Your sun will never
set again, and your moon will
wane no more; the Lord will be your
everlasting light, and your days of
sorrow will end.
Then all your people
will be righteous and they will possess
the land forever.
They are the shoot I
have planted, the work of my hands, for the display of my splendor.
The least of you
will become a thousand, the smallest a mighty nation. I am the Lord;
in its time I will do this swiftly.”
In
God there is no darkness (1 John 1:5). At the end of this world, when God says
enough, His light (magnificence) will obliterate the darkness of sin and
destroy our enemy Satan. In God’s Eternal Kingdom, the old order of things will
pass away; there will be no more tears or despair (Rev. 21:4).
There
will be no more power outages.
Blessings,
Teresa
Comments
That was a long time without electricity. If there's a bad hurricane, our power will go out, but usually only for a day.
Have a blessed week.