This past Sunday I attended a traditional service and when I say that the second youngest person is in their early 60’s.  The pastor is 85 years old and spent a lifetime doing revivals for Jesus all over the country.  He opened up with talking about technology because his wifi at his house went out.  Then the technician at the house was talking to him about his wifi problem and he said that changed his sermon for this day.  Basically what happened is the technician fixed everything and put all new equipment into their house.  When he went to connect the network and leave it still wasn’t working.  The technician realized what he did was splice all the new wires into the main wire box outside and that wiring was corrupt.  It was at that moment he realized God put it on his heart to speak about this today.  This is what we do as followers of Christ, we are connected to the main source of our peace and salvation and for whatever reason we may find we splice back into our old corrupt wiring.  Whenever the path that Christ has trailblazed for us starts to show some difficulty we run back and go to what’s familiar.  We sometimes don’t even realize we are splicing back into the old way of thinking and living, also commonly known as ” The Old Man.”  We are so familiar with this that we by instinct will splice back into the thoughts and actions we think will free us of the burden we are feeling.  We will hold onto this comfort even though we know it is harmful to our soul.

Thankfully, we serve a God that is GOOD! He sees no faults in our wiring and is always ready to re-splice us back into his perfect, powerful and full of grace wiring.  Even when we splice back into the “Old Man” we feel the shock but it many times is not painful enough to remind us we need to fix it.  How crazy is it that even though we are connected directly to God and the flow is perfect we still feel inadequate about being there.  I am tired of that and want to sink deeply into the Goodness of our God!  That means giving up my wire cutters and splicers and relinquishing those tools to Christ.  The trick is wanting what God has to offer more than what we want.  There is nothing good in me or around me and there is Only GOOD, LOVE, MERCY and GRACE in Jesus.  I want that direct connection to stay fully intact and I want to live off the full awesome mighty power source of Love that My Adoptive Father wants to give me all the time! Amen!

One Love, One King, All Christ