Lightening the way

This weekend I have been on a senior high boys retreat with my church, Trinity UMC. It was awesome. . We were on the lake. We had some great discussions, talks, and workdays. I am really blessed that I get to work with and be around such great people and kids.
However, on Saturday night it started raining and thunder and where there is thunder there is you guessed it lightning. The lake house we were staying in had some covered porches and provided us a great view of the lighting displays that were taking place.
So, sometimes the strangest things or maybe just the simplest things in my life give me ideas and cause my brain to tick. Lighting. Yes, this phenomenon that I had seen all my life kicked my brain into jump-start.
This weekends talks have been about being men, becoming warriors, Shepherds, and lovers. We have had talks on covering how Jesus was to lust and my talk which is stepping up. The step up talk basically challenged us as men to care, love, and meet needs for others. Whether they are here in our local community, schools, or if they are halfway around the world. This weekend…with the lightning caused this to come over my brain.
Have you ever watched a lightening storm? The bolts of light streak across the stay in patterns that seem random and majestic. The lighting goes in any direction it wishes. Sometimes it is streaks or one big flash or a web.
I am amazed by its power. The thunder it produces as it splits the sky can rumble the earth. The lightening itself can start fires when it strikes the earth. Lightning is powerful.
As Christians we should be like riders of these majestic nature occurrences. We should be powerful, majestic, and free. Free to go where we need and do what we need. We should be a light to the dark lands. We should rumble the earth when we strike the problems of this world. Problems being, Hunger, suffering, slavery to name some. We should be the leaders in which everyone else follows. It is hard to ride lightening. It is hard because you never know where it will strike first. However when you see a thunderstorm coming you bed there will be some storms in it. Locate the storms of this world. The evil and oppression and be the light. Help light the way out of the dark places. To the boys I said this. “Lightning, it is powerful, majestic, and dangerous. So should we as men with God on our team be to darkness”.
So, may you come to be the light in the dark places. May you shake the earth in your actions for good. So ride people, ride.