“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” (I John 1:9 ESV)
As I am walking down the hallway one morning this week, my wife, working in her home office, asks me if I sent out the meditation on that particular day because she had not received it yet. I said, “Yes. You should have received it early in the morning.” She goes on to tell me that for some reason, lately her phone emails and texts were showing up much later than the time they were sent to her. Immediately I applied my tech training that I picked up while working in the days of computers. It was free and I am going to make that training available to you today. Get excited! It’s free! Let’s call it free tech training for believers.
When my computer would malfunction at work, on more than one occasion, I would call one of the system tech experts. And, in a similar way, again on more than one occasion, I have called my cable company to send out a tech to help me with some type of problem. In both situations, the trained tech says, “Unplug it and then plug it back in.” Most of the time that was the simple fix, the remedy to my problem. Two of my sons, during their college years, worked a summer job in the technical assistance department at a major hospital. If employees had a computer issue and they called them for help in trouble shooting their problems, they would use the same words, “Unplug it and then plug it back in.” It usually worked.
These are my sources for tech training. So when my wife told me her issue as described above, I said, “Power your phone down and then power it back on.” That was my way of saying, “Unplug it and then plug it back in.” It worked!
Now as a believer, when you know your Christian character, your Christian conduct, or your Christian consciousness is not working right, “Unplug it and then plug it back in.” This is the free tech training for believers: Unplug the contradictory character, the conflicting behavior, and the complete consciousness that is diametrically opposed to your belief, and for any certain thing within you that is interfering with your being “working right.” Unplug by repenting, confessing your sins, being forgiven by God, and cleansed of all unrighteousness, and then plug back in your Christian character, Christian commitments, Christian consciousness, and Christian conduct. You will find that it all will be working as it should and more so, as you desire. For your desire is to please the Lord in all that you do.
May this no-cost, free tech training benefit you today and in the future. Think about it! You just completed your tech training at no cost, and it did not take a semester, not months, nor weeks, just a few minutes of your time. Share your training with others freely! And between you and me, we know we all will have to apply our training at some time of the other; more than once. Right? Be blessed!
“Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.” (Hebrews 4:16 KJV)
Still committed to the climb,
Mark L. King