Power Failure

The weather can do some very interesting things. We have all seen the situation where it was pouring down rain on one side of the street while the other side was completely dry. There were times in Colorado when I would be sitting out, enjoying the day when a sudden cool breeze would begin to blow. When that happened, you could be pretty sure there was a shower in the vicinity. On one such occasion, I began to see water trickling through the campsite. When I investigated, I found that it was raining heavily not more than ten yards away from where I was, but it was still clear where I was standing.

Exodus 10
²²So Moses lifted his hand toward heaven, and there was deep darkness over the entire land for three days. ²³During all that time the people scarcely moved, for they could not see. But there was light as usual where the people of Israel lived.

Pharaoh was a hard man to convince. Moses kept going back to him and giving him chance after chance to repent and do what God had commanded, but to no avail. There where times when he seemed to be on the verge of obedience, but each time he tried to change the rules. He offered to let the Israelites present their sacrifices in Egypt. He offered to let the men only go. He offered to let the adults go. He offered to let the people go if they left their livestock. He had a counteroffer for just about everything Moses brought to him. Pharaoh could not bring himself to relinquish control.

In this passage, Moses is invoking the plague of darkness that God had pronounced on Egypt. Once again, Pharaoh was being obstinate. For whatever reasons he thought he had, God was using the nation of Egypt to bring honor and glory to His name. At the command of God, darkness fell over the land of Egypt – with one exception. Where the Israelites lived, it was business as usual. While the Egyptians were groping around in blackness so thick that they had to stay home, God’s people were taking care of business.

We live in a world that is filled with darkness. People are searching for something to light their path so they will not have to stumble around, running into obstacle after obstacle. Like Pharaoh, they most likely have been offered the opportunity to relinquish control to the one God who is already in control, but they have chosen to continue in their present state. They want to negotiate with God to get a deal whereby they can keep some of their worldly baggage with them. However, that is not the way God works. He has a plan whereby they can walk out of the darkness into the light, but they like the darkness too much to follow The Light.

As Christians, we will never have a power failure. Through God’s anointing, we walk in the Light. If we are living as we should be, we also spread that light across a lost world. God says that there is only one Way, one Truth, and one Light – and that is our Lord Jesus Christ. We must be about shining that light everywhere we go. That is how we light up the world.

We serve an awesome God!!!!!