"I could have my own phone!" My seven-year-old daughter found an old cellphone that her younger sister had plugged into the charger. She got excited that should we be able to use that phone once it charged up.
I had to explain of course that it still wouldn't work as a phone, because it wasn't connected. And we have to pay money to keep it connected.
This morning she noticed that it was charged up but the time and date were not correct. Again, I said "because it's not connected to the Big Brain, to tell it what time it really is."
Then it hit me. Sin and neglect makes us lose connection with the Divine Internet, so to speak. When we get frustrated (and want to throw things, right?) that our computer or phone lost connection, or is spotty or slow, let us remember...that's how our spirit feels when it isn't plugged in to God. With a strong, clean connection. With nothing coming between.
And we have to pay--in time, heart, discipline, honesty--to stay connected.
That's how the Manufacturer designed us to work. And we just don't otherwise.
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