Power Outages

I was sitting on the bleachers at a local Middle School yesterday evening about six or so when the game my grandson was playing in was stopped because of lightening. Within a short time, the storms in the area fully arrived.

Bill Miller of the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram reported – “Pop-up thunderstorms returned to southwest Fort Worth on Tuesday morning after overnight storms raked North Texas, leaving about 5,200 utility customers without power across the region.”

I was thinking about how the language of weather reporting mirrors the fate of local believers and Churches. It might be said, for example, that there is a loss of power – “due to a pattern of instability” brought about by an attitude, regarding the “things of God,” that is more moderate (read: neither hot nor cold). We find ourselves in a “trough preceding the cold front that will trigger storms” in our experience.

I wish the “power loss” numbers were smaller – or better yet, non-existent. Certainly it is possible for the latter to be the norm, but, unless we are changed by the revealed Word of God, and His Spirit within us, we are doomed to repeat these cycles of “power outage” in our life.