Today’s Thought “Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia” G. Ward

1 John 1:5-6

“This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.  If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.”

One of the most intense songs from the early 1970’s popularized by Vicki Lawrence (actress, author, and comedienne) remains "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia.” The lyrics portrayed the simplicity in anticipation from a young man arriving at the town of his residence after a two-week journey anxious to see his bride and before going home stops at the local pub for a drink with a best friend who shares how this fellow needs to know of her infidelity while he was away. This best friend includes that he also was unfaithful with her whereby this young man departed enraged. Murder of the best friend is the final result and while it would appear that this young man is the perpetrator, he was not. The chorus insists that his attorney was ill-equipped causing the judge’s expedient decision that demanded this young man be hung (without proper jurisprudence) ALTHOUGH INNOCENT.

Do you think this young man longed for an opportunity to forsake a drink before venturing home (cf. Ps.119:133-136)? What about his selection of this bride, were there warnings violated obscuring righteous pursuits (cf. Jas.1:5)?

Submission today unto our Omniscient God denies sin’s entry…