We need time to recharge the motors!

With all of the latest load-shedding (in South Africa) I have noticed that our gate motors don't have the necessary time to recharge their batteries. Previously, it would have been fine, but now that we are on level 6 load-shedding, there is no time for them to get back to full power.

The obvious connection with our emotion and spiritual batteries is there for us to note. If we don't take the time to recharge our batteries, we will eventually come to a stand still. Jesus reminds us all of this important principal when he takes time to rest and recharge.

Matthew 14:23 - After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. Later that night, he was there alone...

Living in Grace

D3LM3

P.S. I will be taking a few days to 'practise what I preach', so I won't be sharing blogs for a few days :) 

Replacing the battery

I have a clock in my office that has been stuck at 12pm for the last year. It has been entirely my fault though, because I simply decided that I didn't actually need the clock to tell the time - I have my own watch and my phone also tells the correct time, so I thought it was unnecessary. However, today I decided it was TIME to put a new battery into the old clock and I admit that it is nice to hear the tick, tick, tick when all else is quiet around me. So this got me thinking:

Do we sometimes feel we are stuck in one place?

When last did we recharge our batteries?

What will it take for us to fulfil our God-given potential? (If a clock is made to tell the time and it is not fulfilling that function, then surely it must feel frustrated - assuming clocks have feelings :)

What parts of our spiritual lives need a little jump-start?

Exodus 9:16 - "But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might show you my power and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth."

Living in grace

D3LM3

 

Recharging the batteries

Cellphone companies are constantly trying to improve the battery life on their devices. The longer your battery life the happier you will be! And yet, despite all of this fuss about battery life, you and I will still need to plug our phones into the socket, in order to charge our phones. No matter whether your current phone lasts a day or even two days, the batteries all need a recharge at some point.

And so the same applies to us. Why we think we can run for days and weeks on end, without allowing ourselves the chance to 'recharge' is beyond me. We need to recognise when our emotional and spiritual batteries are running flat and then to recharge. If we want to be effective in the long run, we need to look after our personal 'battery life.'

Matthew 11:28-30 - Come to me, all who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

If you have some good ideas on how to recharge your spiritual lives then please share them in the comments section of this post. Thanks and God bless.

Living in Grace
D3LM3

Need a recharge?

How long does your cell phone battery last? A day? Two days? 5 hours?
I suppose it all depends on what you use your phone for and what make of phone you have.

Regardless of the age of your phone or how much you use it, there is one thing common amongst all of us phone users..... Our phones ALL NEED a recharge.

So, take a look at your life at the moment. Does the same principle not apply to your life? Regardless or how busy you are, how old you are, or whatever else we may add to the mix - the principle is still the same. WE ALL need a time to recharge.

God called it a SABBATH. Phone companies call it a recharge. It's the same thing. We can't work effectively and honour God with our lives if we have no 'power' in our souls. The gift of the Sabbath is that it offers us a chance to rest and to reconnect with God and ourselves.

Perhaps there are a few of us who are needing to be recharged at the moment! What you are doing about it? Remember a phone that has no power is useless. Likewise a human spirit with no power can also be rendered useless.
#justsaying

Exodus 16:23 - “This is what the Lord commanded: Tomorrow will be a day of complete rest, a holy Sabbath day set apart for the Lord."

Exodus 16:29 - "They must realize that the Sabbath is the Lord’s gift to you."

Luke 23:56 - "But by the time they were finished the Sabbath had begun, so they rested..."

Living in Grace
D3LM3