POWER OUTAGE

“POWER OUTAGE” says the public notice in our local paper, THE NORTHLAND AGE, Tuesday, March 5, 2013.

“Kaitaia and surrounding Districts

SUNDAY 17 MARCH 2013

8AM- 5:30 PM “

“Top Energy needs to carry out essential maintenance work on the main electricity transmission line that supplies Kaitaia and the surrounding districts. This work is necessary to ensure that the area continues to receive a reliable supply of electricity.” 

And this is what I wrote on June 9, 2008 about SHUTDOWN NOTICES:

In spite of the power shutdown notice from Top Energy, which stated exactly when the power would be disconnected from the premises on our street, we got caught three times.

First of all the extractor fan in our bathroom did not work, my electric shaver did not go and my wife was not able to get the car out of the garage.

We are dependant on Top Energy for our power supply and nobody has trouble acknowledging that. However, there is a bigger power supply than Top Energy, namely the Almighty God. But we are having trouble admitting that we are completely dependant on the power of God. God is the only one who is selfexistent. God is the only independant being in the universe. We are dependant beings.

When Top Energy dropped the power shutdown notice into our letterbox we should have paid better attention. The consequences for not doing so were but minor.

But when we are treating the shutdown notices from Almighty God, as written in the Bible, with contempt, we are in big trouble.

We find one shutdown notice in Hebrews 9:27. Those who are born are going to die! Another shutdown notice is recorded in the last book of the Bible. In Revelation 1:7 is written, “Look, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him …”

Let us acknowledge that we are dependant on our creator God and accept his salvation, before we get our shutdown  notice.