Last night we came home to complete darkness. As we neared our home, we noticed the entire side of our street had an eerie stillness. “The power must be out,” my husband said in his nonchalant way. “Ugh” no heating pad on my shoulders tonight I thought. As we entered the house we both headed to our preferred methods of light. Yep, I went for candles. He went for the big guns, battery powered room lighting. You would have thought it was the White House.
Time lapsed slowly as we both groped around trying to figure out the, “What next?” Refrigerator—hummmm, what will keep? How long? Ahhh, need to connect the generator to the freezer, so we don’t loose anything. Don’t open the refrigerator. How long will the water be hot? Oh that’s right its gas. Well, thank God. Next plan? Take a shower and go catch up on my homework. Homework? Yes, I am taking some classes and I have a lot of reading to do. Tried that—won’t work. Not bright enough. Need more lights to read without eye strain. Okay, I will go ahead and do the Blog for tomorrow. I go to get on the internet and you guessed it. No WIFI. Okay, I will just type it on a Word Doc and copy and paste it into Weebly in the morning. So, here I am.
What I learned from this experience. We are creatures of habit. Make habits work for you not against you. Be a problem solver. Prepare in advance. Purchase things that prepare you for your future. We had back-up batteries, generator, alternate heat sources, ice chest, lanterns, candles, and cell phones. We were fine. My computer was 100% and worse come to worst, I could charge it in my car with my handy adapter. We were going to be okay.
Then, I thought about utter darkness. I thought about people dying and going to hell with no options. Hell, where there are no alternate sources of light and never dying flames. “God who would want to go to hell?” I don’t think anyone wants to go to hell. I do however, think people want what they want, more than they want God; and the result of that choice is they don’t go to heaven. To refuse to admit we are a sinner and accept Jesus Christ as our personal Savior and then, live accordingly is a choice. Make that choice and we are forever in the light. Fail to make that choice and forever be removed from the true source of Light—Jesus Christ.
What I learned from this experience. We are creatures of habit. Make habits work for you not against you. Be a problem solver. Prepare in advance. Purchase things that prepare you for your future. We had back-up batteries, generator, alternate heat sources, ice chest, lanterns, candles, and cell phones. We were fine. My computer was 100% and worse come to worst, I could charge it in my car with my handy adapter. We were going to be okay.
Then, I thought about utter darkness. I thought about people dying and going to hell with no options. Hell, where there are no alternate sources of light and never dying flames. “God who would want to go to hell?” I don’t think anyone wants to go to hell. I do however, think people want what they want, more than they want God; and the result of that choice is they don’t go to heaven. To refuse to admit we are a sinner and accept Jesus Christ as our personal Savior and then, live accordingly is a choice. Make that choice and we are forever in the light. Fail to make that choice and forever be removed from the true source of Light—Jesus Christ.
ACTION STEP: Prepare now for a bright future. Consider a power outage as a wake-up sign that, we can’t take the invitation to come to Jesus as an open invitation that lasts forever. No, one day it will be too late to accept the invitation. One day the lights will go out for our mortal body and the ability to choose will be over. Choose now. Don't allow yourself to be deceived in the encompassing darkness that surrounds us.
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