How are your technology skills?
Is it something you love to do? Do you find that you love the results, once it is figured out, but getting there is a pain? I love the results but many times getting there is so hard.
I have had trouble most recently. It actually has to do with posting my blogs. I have been posting them for a while; it may have been a year now. But trouble erupted. I have been trying on my own to figure it out. I have contacted my hosting service and they can’t help me. They say it is a Facebook problem. They gave me the idea of debugging with Facebook, which I did, but all I got was some “Greek” and I have no idea how to fix it. I am not a programmer. I haven’t wanted to call WordPress because even though I have a free version it cost to ask questions. And then there is the question, will they really know the answer or will they just tell me it is a Facebook problem. How do you contact Facebook anyway? That seems like an impossible option.
As I have been going through this process I discovered something very significant. I can’t do it myself. Oh, I can keep busy trying, which I did for hours, but I just kept failing. I discovered the only way I could succeed was to go to the experts. In order to go to the experts, WordPress, it cost me money. Because it would cost money I kept trying and trying myself but when I realized I am just failing over and over again I finally gave up and made the call.
It made me think of my Christian walk.
I find many times trying to fix myself. But then I discover that the harder I try to figure out the “technology” of my heart all I have is a heart deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked and I don’t even know my heart.
When I get desperate enough I go to the “Expert Technical Support” (Jesus). He is the only one that knows the technology of my heart. Why do I keep trying on my own instead of going to the Expert? For the same reason, I didn’t want to go to WordPress. It costs! You might be saying, “What do you mean it cost?” It is a free gift!” Yes and no. Forgiveness is a free gift but I have to ask for it. Salvation is a free gift but there are conditions, so technically it is not free, it cost. What does it cost me? Everything! It cost me full surrender. It cost me all my rights. I have to allow the Technician access to my heart.
Look at Calvary and tell me that there is no cost.
It cost Christ suffering, indescribable beyond words. The physical pain was not the most difficult, it was the mental anguish, the separation from His Father that was brought on by all our sins. It cost the life of the Son of God.
Everything that we do needs to be done through the eyes of seeing Jesus dying on the cross for us. Are the next words I’m going to say going to be Christlike? Is the next thing I am going to watch, listen to, or do going to reflect Christlikeness or is it reflecting the things of this world?
My link to my WordPress Blog was not speaking to Facebook because there were some pathways that were not right. There was some programming that had to be fixed and I was unable to do it. Reality is that as humans we have some “programming” that needs fixing. “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:8, 9.
We can try to reprogram our ways and our thoughts to God’s ways but we will fail over and over.
The truth is, we are not capable of reprogramming ourselves. We need the expert Technician to do the reprogramming for us. Salvation is free, just like my free version of WordPress but the reprogramming is not. Just like WordPress did all the work after I paid the price, Jesus, the Technician will do all the work after I have paid the price. What is the price? The price is a full surrender of my life. Allowing Him to come in and for me to submit all to Jesus.
The WordPress technician could not go into my program until I “surrendered” my blog to him and allowed him full access to go in and do the fixing. If I had kept trying to go in and change or take back what he was trying to do it would have never gotten fixed. So with Christ, He wants full access to our lives. And we have to keep allowing full access to our lives and continue to follow His instructions or we will not be prepared for Him when He comes to take us home.
Dear Father,
We want to be ready when You come. The hardest thing to do is to let You have full control. We feel out of control when we give up. Help us realize the freedom and peace that comes when we give it all to You. “Lord, take our hearts; for we cannot give it. It is Thy property. Keep it pure, for we cannot keep it for Thee. Save us in spite of ourselves, our weak, unchristlike self. Mold us, fashion us, raise us into a pure and holy atmosphere, where the rich current of Thy love can flow through our souls.”
In Jesus Name,
Amen
Give your whole life to Jesus today and let Him have full control. It will cost the death of self but it is worth every cent. And when it is all said and done He will have the technology of our hearts programmed so that we will be ready to go home with Him.
Love you all.
Have you had a technology issue? What spiritual application can you apply to it? Please share your ideas