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So the other day, as I told you all about HERE, an electrical line on our street broke, blew, caused and fire and we had a HUGE power shortage in our neighborhood. Everyone on our block and for about 15 blocks around us had NO eltricity. So my sis and I decided instead of stayin in the dark that we should go for a drive.
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We decided to take a ride to Frys by our house. Its like HUGE and they have this awesome lounge with couches and EVERTHING and we just chill there for a little while. After an hour or so we headed back home to see if the the electricity had been fixed. So we're drivin back and all the houses are still dark and i'm like AWWW BUMMMMMER!!!
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Then I see this house with a light shining and i'm like, YES!!! I say to my sis, THERESA look, the lights ARE back on!!! My sis is like, Oh no, Mom and I were drivin around before and we saw that man's house and we stopped to talk to the man of the house. He said that his house and their whole block didn't lose their electicity.
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I was what?! Thats cRaZy!!! All the houses on the blocks behind that block had lost their electricity. All the houses on the blocks in front of that block had lost their electricity. However, there stood that block of houses, smack dab in the middle of all the darkness, with their lights shining bright. Aparently, that one block of houses was connected to a different electrical source than all the other blocks of houses around them. They had a DIFFERENT CONNECTION.
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We as Christians have better have a different connection. We can not put our hope and our trust in the things of this world. "The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for
ever." (Isaiah 40:8) We've got to be connected to Jesus. Everything in this world is finite, its all gonna pass away some day, but God is eternal. The Bible says, "...be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed..." (Romans 12:22) I don't want to be connected to the things of this world!!!
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If your gettin your strength from things in this world, people, education, entertainment, popularity, fashion, relationships, one day your lights are gonna go out. Everything around you is going to go dark, you'll be wondering around aimlessy, hoping to find that house with the lights. And hopefully you do find that house.
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BUT instead of finding that house, wouldn't it be sooo much better to BE THAT HOUSE?!?! To be someone's light? Everything in this world can be chaos, utter blackness, but your light will still be shining, because your NOT connected to this world!!! "Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid." (Matthew 5:14) Then when people, ask you heeeey? What's going on with you? My life is so messed up? There is darkness everywhere, how are YOU gettin light??? Then you can tell them, its because I have a different connection.
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"Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that
followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." (John 8:12) If you want a light that will never go out, not matter what goes on in this world, get connected to Jesus. Everything in your world can be going wrong, but as long as you've got Jesus, you've got a light that will NEVER go out!!!
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I'm sooooo thankful to be connected to Jesus, MY LIGHT that will never go out!!! I can't help but think of THIS scripture, I LOVE IT soooo much...
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"And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof." (Revelations 21:23)
