My cousin Yasmina sent me a message and I have edited it slightly but I thought it was worth sharing, enjoy!
So my iphone just decided to turn off and just wouldn’t turn on. I tried plugging it in, I tried connecting it to my computer, holding the on/off button down. Nothing. I started to panic. Tomorrow is my first day of class. I teach at 8am and there is NO way I will wake up on time if I don’t have my phone alarm. I don’t know anyone around here that could help me. It’s freaking 6pm on Martin Luther King so all the stores by my place are closed. I panicked big time as I realized how much I need my phone. SO I shot up a prayer half believing God could fix technology, half worrying about what I was going to do. You know what, it turned on. I know this sounds dumb but it made me think.
Why don’t I feel the same way about God as I do about my phone? I mean seriously, I would be Lost without it– LITERALLY- it gets me places. It wakes me up, It holds all my photos, contact numbers, emails.We’re in synch. Losing it would be like losing a limb.
I never imagined I would ever be so dependent on technology, in fact I used to hate people like me.
I also thought about how much that phone cost me. I mean yeah I got an upgrade an all but I’ m BROKE. I cant afford another one!! Got me thinking: If only I felt the same way about my salvation and God’s gift on the cross to me as I did about my phone. My life would be totally different. My choices and decisions would be completely different. If only I realized, I mean REALIZED, what that cost.
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Wow! Isn’t that powerful? The truth of the cross hit her right between the eyes. Christ’s death should interrupt our lives. It should cause us to think differently.
Phil 3:8
What is more, I continue to consider all these things as a loss for the sake of the what is far more valuable, knowing the Messiah Jesus, my Lord. It is because of him that I have experienced the loss of all those things. Indeed, I consider them rubbish in order to gain the Messiah (ISV)
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