No Facebook, no Myspace, no Twitter, no Drudge: these internet mainstays will be amongst the casualties when the Storm knocks out electric power to many sections of these United States. Our ability to communicate and commiserate with our cyber families and friends will be gone and for some this loss will be devastating.
Telecommunications of all stripes will be hampered if not eliminated during the worst of the maelstrom that is this day bearing down primarily on the U.S. but secondarily on the rest of the world. For this writer, the internet is the primary mode of conveyance for my ministry, and to lose this "congregation" would be painful and frustrating, but the Lord would lead me through to a new thing. No matter what happens during the Storm which brings only light precipitation today, the Lord will lead those of us with faith in Him and His glorious word.
No matter how trying conditions become during the coming weeks and remaining months of 2010, our gracious and merciful Lord will lead us. If we do lose this platform called the internet, it will only serve to strengthen our relationships with those we can see and touch in the physical realm. Ultimately, it is those who we can see, kiss, hold, walk with and shake the hands of that will be the very ones that will help us to persevere through the gales that blow down our material strongholds which will be proven to be not so strong after all.
Indeed, it is incumbent upon us to extinguish the fires on the bridges that we through our very human carelessness and pride have ignited. There is no luxury of time to allow these fires to crackle and spit without Living Water being poured upon them. The family and friends that we have left stranded in need of rescue may themselves be too proud to cry out for help - but rescue them we must. Burning bridges will collapse during the worst of the Storm and all those stranded will fall to their deaths.
We are this day inside of the Cone of Uncertainty. We cannot leave loose ends untied and relationships with those we are aligned with to chance. We cannot neglect those who need us; those who may be too proud to seek our help because they would rather remain on the flaming bridge that rocks in the intensifying wind than admit wrong-doing. The truth is; we are all wrong.
When the internet goes down and our statuses cannot be posted; it is the statuses we maintain with those who God gave to us in the Natural that will matter the most.
The symptoms of Regret are a gut-wrenching pains that shatter the outer casing of the soul. This is pain that none of us need be subjected to.
May we please pray?
Dear Lord - You are the restorer and the healer. Jesus, You give life and in that, You give us each other to love, support, hold, and care for. We truly are dead when we are alone as that is not how You created us to be. Our Cyber relationships are important, but those that are personal are mission-critical to Storm survival. Damaging winds and dark days of no electric power are coming. We will lose contact with those who exist in the Cyber, but what of those here in the Natural?
Jesus, we ask you to please lead the lost, lonely, and the unloved to a place of sanctuary where there are others that will hold them as You will hold and sustain them. When the bandwith is exceeded and the servers are down, so many will be without anyone to love them. When the Power Grid is disrupted and there is no electric light, who will hold the lonely when they are cold and frightened?
You, oh mighty Lord can bring people together in your name. Only You can bring smiles so bright that the blind will be made to see. Only through your hands can a broken heart truly be healed and hedged that it may not be broken again. Only you Lord, can bring miracles during the worst of the Storm and You will indeed! You, Jesus, will bring healing during the Storm that will salve the symptoms of regret.
Jesus, the name above all names. In your beautiful name that is the embodiment of love we pray, amen.
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