Daylight brought the opportunity to call the electrician, who responded quickly and was able to temporarily resolve the situation. There was a main connection between the house and the meter that was burnt to the point of hampering full electrical contact and could disconnect with too much usage. He stated that he would go ahead and prepare for the repair though he would not be able to perform the task until the following week. Between us, we felt that we should be ok, but his parting words were - "TRY NOT TO RUN TOO MUCH POWER!" .
This crazy life always seems to divvy up burnt power connections, power outages, and moments of helpless disconnects. The bigger problem happens, when in those times of fractional power usage, we still want to drive on at 100% not realizing that greater damage and injury that could be caused by not heeding the Electrician's admonition ..."TRY NOT TO RUN TOO MUCH POWER!". We may even be down for the count, oppressed by the carnal image of success that demands us to "give it your all", which can weigh so heavily upon us that we go down in flames trying to give it our all... instead of trusting Him for His all.
Some have said that - "When we get to the end of ourselves, then He has the opportunity to begin". Nice thought, but we seem to be endowed with the inability to know when to quit (it may feel to soon or too late depending on the size of the failure we face). The problem with that statement is that our humanness causes us all to focus more on the human failure as an infraction, than the human failure as God opportunity.
We would sooner take up the mantle of "failure" than to surrender the moment to God as a moment of working toward a greater victory. Power outages, weak times, care-less moments, temptations fall, and any other of the multitude of words that could define our interruption to usefulness, make it easier on our hearts and minds than admitting to the finger prints of God found all over the event. We need to quit closing our eyes to God's advantageous positioning of us for the next great victory in the Kingdom.
"A just man falleth seven times, and rises up again, but the wicked falleth into mischief." Proverbs 24:16 - A child of the King, justified by the full Gospel of Jesus, has a character trait of rising up though intensely bent to fall. His "God" falls, the seven times, bring with them a potential resurrection with all the proof that He is for us and with us. "Try not to run too much power" -- your efforts are only needed in surrender to His resurrection during your most helpless moments... surrender to Him in those moments of weakness.
I climbed into a beautiful antique phone booth to find total disconnect ... no power and no phone.
A sad picture of a life with no horizontal power and no vertical communication. I pulled out my cell - I couldn't stand the disconnect.
Be careful, O people of God to make sure that you "Let the Word of Christ Dwell in you Richly" -- and encourage others to love The Words that are eternal.
"This is my comfort in my affliction: for Thy word hath quickened me." Psalm 119:50
HLFA,
Jeff
