A few weeks ago - the old laptop started to do strange and amazing things - like not shutting down - then shutting down 1/2 way through something!
Then it started dropping things off - like the web cam disappearing - the sound disappearing - strange messages appeared telling me that my anti virus was not installed - strange and mysterious are the ways of the computer!!
She denies emphatically that she knows anything about computers but it amazes me (that for one, self-described novice, in all things tech) just how much knowledge her pretty little head can hold.
Anyway, she put me onto a tech minded Computer (and can I use the word) Geek. An amazing young man - quiet, determined, straight shooter, down to business sort of young fellow - who actually came to me without me having to go to him - extraordinary!!
He got straight down to the nitty gritty and YES!! - I had some sort of obscure virus that bi passed my security and anti malware programmes and embedded itself deep deep inside the driver of the Web Cam - making it give up the ghost entirely and taking out with it most of the other drivers as well.
That is about as much knowledge I needed to know and wasn't at all surprised when he suggested that I needed to 'wipe the slate clean' and then re-load the hard drive!!
As I said earlier - don't you just LOVE computers!!
Long story cut short - the Computer and I are friends again - I no longer threaten to hurl it down the steps onto the road and we have kissed and made up - even after hours of re-loading programmes.
All of that got me thinking long and hard about what actually is going on deep down inside our very souls - like the computer virus so easily stalked my little laptop and zeroed in for the kill so it is with sin.
Sin can get so embedded deep deep down in the very core of our personalities that it becomes so second nature to us that we accept it without question.
We can get used to and ever so comfortable with our sin-lives that we no longer have any consciousness of it there at all. That can be a HUGE problem!!
We can even get to like our sin - we like it so much that we can actually turn off the promptings of our Heavenly Father through His Holy Spirit and immune ourselves to not even thinking about whether it is there or not.
Yes, unlike the computer virus - our sin virus can slowly slowly take over our lives.
But, God will never give up on us - Believe me - He didn't give up on me - and if He didn't give up in me then He won't give up on you.
He keeps wanting to get you back to Him - He wants you to have a full and lasting relationship with Him - How?
Well, the only way to having that sort of lasting relationship with God is to be prepared to hand everything over to Him - not just a little bit - but the whole lot.
So, maybe you are thinking I am just too bad - My sin/virus is embedded so so deep - not even a re-load of the hard drive will remove it - well, I have news for you.
No matter what you have done - no matter what sort of life you have led - Jesus loves you and wants you to come to Him.
Maybe you have wandered away from Him - He wants you back!
Maybe you been so hurt in the past that you have actually got so angry at God and you have vowed never to even think of Him again - guess what - He wants you back!
Maybe you have had a close friend or someone in the family that have been taken ill with a terminal disease or even died and you have blamed God and told Him so - Guess what - He wants you back.
No matter where you are on the "missing in action" list - God wants you back.
None of us are promised an easy ride in this life - We are going to suffer all sorts of stuff - from persecution, disease, grief, doubt, confusion, financial disasters, marital breakdowns - you name it - BUT God says - we are just passing though - this place is not our home - this place is just such a temporary dwelling - our real home is in eternity with Him.
I have heard people say that "there could never be a loving God in Heaven because Look at Bill - great man, gave all he had to the poor and yet God will send him to Hell".
My answer - How do you know that? - we cannot judge a persons heart - we cannot put our puny minds in the mind of God - Yes - God has said that all sin must be paid for either by accepting what Jesus did on the cross at Calvary or at the throne of God! BUT...
We are not in the 'judging' business!! - That is up to a mighty, just and merciful God!
We desperately need to get our own homes in order while we are living here in the days of God's Grace - while there is still time - we need to come to repentance and kneel at his cross where the burdens of past sins can be chucked into oblivion never to counted against us ever.
Are you one of those people, who think they are just too bad for God? Or are you angry at God for some reason? Or are your sins embedded so deep inside your personal computer 'drive' that you feel so comfortable with the whole set-up you just want to leave well enough alone?
God still wants YOU!! - He gave His son for YOU! - Don't try to put your mind in the mind of God? You will never do it!
Your sin embedded too deep? - God can go deeper!
Too angry with God for perceived injustices? God's love can overcome anything - even that - Come to Him today!!
Too angry with God for perceived injustices? God's love can overcome anything - even that - Come to Him today!!
Don't delay - He wants you just the way you are - Angry, hurt, confused, doubting, full of deep sin - just the way you are.
He worked a miracle in my life - he can work one in yours as well.
Oh the Deep Deep Love of Jesus (S. Trevor Francis)
O the deep deep love of Jesus, vast unmeasured, boundless, free!
Rolling as a mighty ocean in its fullness over me!
Underneath me, all around me, is the current of Thy love.
Leading onward, leading homeward to Thy glorious rest above!
O the deep, deep love of Jesus, spread His praise from shore to shore!
How He loveth, ever loveth, changeth never, nevermore!
How He watches o'er His loved ones, died to call them all His own;
How for them He intercedeth, watcheth o'er them from the throne!
O the deep, deep love of Jesus, love of every love the best!
'Tis an ocean full of blessing, 'tis a haven giving rest!
O the deep, deep love of Jesus, 'tis a heaven of heavens to me;
And it lifts me up to glory, for it lifts me up to Thee!
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