Blind within the Darkness

I recently went on a trip down to Tennessee to visit family and we happen to go out to some caves in a town called Spring water. It was a fun day, and the cool temperature of the caves gave much relief from the eighty degree weather that was growing hotter and hotter outside (roughly a 150 feet above). The tour guide went through boring things like rock formations and the fact that it takes 100000000000000's of years for a rock to grow an inch, but she got my attention when she turned off all the lights at one part of the tour. She told us (in the complete darkness) that if you were to spend any more than a week or two in this complete darkness, you would actually go blind. Apparently it is because your eyes will be searching and searching for something to focus on. it would look and look for some resemblance of light of shadow; anything. but in the end, in complete darkness, the eyes would grow so tired, they would go blind. This struck me.
I believe that the natural world gives us (Spiritual beings) insight into Spiritual things. I felt the Holy Spirit tell me that the cave was the world, and the blindness that came from habitually living in the world. darkness causes blindness after long uninterrupted lengths of time. Romans 1 speaks about how because the world (who had no excuse not to believe in God) did not give God glory and praise, he allowed them to turn to their own devices, their own unnatural lusts and passions, their worship of unknown and created gods and beings. the world worships itself, like darkness exalting the darkness.
it can only take the light of the world, Jesus himself to burst in on such people, and because we are co-labors with Christ, we have the honor to be light bears for him. We have to go into the dark places, we have to talk to to the lost and the weak, and give them light and hope. As Christians we deliver the light that has been shed abroad in our hearts, and the Hope of God in Christ Jesus the LORD. help this world that lives and See's that which is in caves and dungeons of sin and destruction.

Youngblood is back!!

Took a trip to California last week with my wife. I will have pics up on myspace and some video footage on youtube soon. It was a great time, didn't want to come back. I wanted to stay in Santa Cruz forever. i dont think anybody noticed i was gone but ohwell.... (violin cued up)

Ben

Christian Politics

I read an article on AOL news saying that a group of over 80 evangelical ministers have signed a document stating that Christians have been using their faith to sawy the next presidential election, and they are in fact CONDEMMING it!! its a miracle...
Church and state is seperate for a reason. Christians in America are trying to change this country using man's political angle, when God has said that his ways are not our ways. He will do it through the average man, and the average man with the annointing of God.
This is kind of a blah post, but i suppose Christians who are heavily involved in Politics and speak very little of the word of God, scare me.
Peace out.