PLUGGED IN

It is summer and that means my girls are home from college.  More laundry, food to be cooked, late nights, and disappearing items.  Somehow my phone charger and my computer charger always seem to go missing.  I am so irritated when I wake up to write, open my computer realizing that they have watched a movie on it so it is almost dead and there is no charger in sight.  I just wonder what has happened to my chargers I know they didn’t grow legs. 

In this day and time of electronics everything has a charger.  You can’t just buy one charger you have to have a certain charger for a certain device.  Some items will take hours to charge, some will only take minutes.  One time my phone messed up and was unable to be charged now that caused a problem.  It is the age of plugging in, plugging in the USB, plugging into the outlet and getting the most charge time you can get.

When we are plugged into Christ we have the power to have a joyous life.  We don’t have to have a specific cord or a certain outlet to plug into.  We don’t have to wait hours to be charged by Him.  He won’t ever decide that we can’t be charged.  Unlike my charger disappearing, we can always find Him.   It is just as simple as plugging in a USB, we just accept Jesus as our savior and we will be charged.  As He says in John 15: 5-6

[John 15:5-6New International Version (NIV)

5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.]

Jesus is saying in this scripture that they only way to live a truly good life is to stay close to Him, like the branch attached to the vine. 

God loves us and wants us to be fully charged.  He is our power source all we have to do is plug into a relationship with Him full of trust and obedience and we will never go dead.