Lights Out!

Just wanted to share something that happened yesterday that kind of put a part of life in perspective for me--a walk in someone else's shoes, if you will. After i got home from swimming yesterday, the lights kept flickering in our house; the weather was shaky and bad most of the day. Eventually, as most of you probably guessed, the electricity went off altogether. Since I didn't know when and if it would come back on, i figured i might as well go ahead and take my shower. It was dark in there. haha. I actually had to think about where stuff was because without lights, it seemed that my vision wasn't doing me much good at all. Anyways, i finished up and started doing my homework, reading with a flashlight. Ironically, about 5 minutes after my dad said he might have to bring me to Barnes&Noble to do my homework, the lights came back on. While they were off, however, i just kept thinking of one thing: this is how people who don't have Christ live every day (metaphorically of course). We have the honor and blessing of knowing Christ and walking with him daily, but lots of people in our lives and across the world don't, obviously. We live with light radiating throughout our life and it's AWESOME, even though we take it for granted a lot of times. But non-Christians are living in the darkness, and some of them don't even know what light they could have because they've never had a glimpse of it before. Think about it, if you lived in darkness, say with no electricity, wouldn't you be amazed if suddenly lights burned brightly in your house? Wouldn't you want it to stay like that because you can see things better, see things for what they really are? the TRUTH?! I would. so give somebody that glimpse of light. let them look at your life and notice your "light." create in them,well, allow the Lord to create in them a desire to have that light--a light that penetrates darkness!