In 2003 a massive blackout swept across the Northeast, stretching from Ohio to New York, and reaching from Canada in the north to New Jersey and Connecticut at its southernmost.
400,000 people were stranded in subways, cities had no water, and the 90 degree heat tortured those trapped in the clutches of the catastrophe. Trains were immobilized, traffic lights didn’t work, and the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel was silent, closed to its 27,000 daily automobiles.
Yet, some areas were completely unaffected: parts of Albany; certain pockets of Michigan; small areas in New Jersey. The city of Philadelphia retained power throughout the affair.
What made the difference? It’s simple. In Philadelphia, when the fingers of darkness began to reach toward that great city, the Regional Transmission Organization operating the electric grid shut down the connections between the various parts of the system. The disaster was contained before the darkness could spread any farther.
God is our RTO (Regional Transmission Organization), and when we allow him control of our lives, he stops the invasion of the darkness. He keeps the power flowing, for we remain connected to the source: Him.
Luke 11:34 reminds us that our eyes are the source of light in our body. They are the connection between what goes on in this world and the spiritual condition of our hearts.
In the blackout of 2003, it wasn’t a major event that brought the grid crashing down. There was one small failure in the transmission lines, and within minutes, power stations began failing by the dozens. That is just like us. One errant thought, one failure in diligence, and the devil has a toehold. His fingers of darkness embed themselves in us, and we begin to go down.
Luke 11:36 encourages us to be filled with light and to leave no room for darkness. Certainly the 400,000 people stranded in New York’s subways didn’t plan for the darkness to overwhelm them. When the devil begins to cut our transmission lines to God’s power, we don’t start the day intending to wind up in darkness. It comes upon us unawares.
Luke 11:36 doesn’t leave us without hope. Instead, the verse goes on, and with its final words, it reassures us. God is our RTO, and when we allow him control of the power lines connecting us to him, he can find the weak points in the power grid before it begins to fail. He knows the trials we are about to face; the arguments we haven’t had yet; the temptations that will fill our day. He will shut down the faulty power lines the devil will try to use to get control of us, and the whole of our soul will remain filled with God’s everlasting goodness and light.
Jesus is our power source. When we let him control the transmission lines, we will reside in the eternal light of his everlasting love.
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