Recharge Your Batteries

In this digital age, we have information at our fingertips.
Our phone is a computer and camera in addition to being a phone.
Our iPad and laptop holds our personal library and our favorite pod-casts.
Our iPod contains our entire music collection…in the palm of our hand.
We can connect to anyone or anything at any time.

Unless, our battery is low.
We have to recharge our batteries.

You don’t think about it until you see the red indicator in the battery icon.
Then everything stops until that battery is recharged.

We personify our devices and say that this app or this activity is eating our battery.
It’s never our usage…it’s always the device itself that causes the problem.

I sit here using my laptop with 39% battery capacity.
Soon, I will have to plug in that familiar white cord and come up to 100% power.

We are not much different from the battery.

Our culture seems to have one speed…fast.
Our lives seem to have one description…busy.
We don’t come with an indicator light…but we should!

It would be lovely if we had an endless supply of energy and resources.
We don’t.
Our tanks run dry.
Our batteries need to be recharged.

The apostles had gathered around Jesus and reported to Him all they had done and taught. Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, He said to them, “Come with Me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.”
(Mark 6:30,31)

Come with Me and recharge your batteries.

Do you ever sit down and look at old pictures?
All the memories come flooding back just by looking at the photographs.
You find that you have been sitting there for over an hour and you lost track of the time.
You get up…feeling refreshed.

Do you ever sit in a comfy chair with a good book and a cup of tea and doze off?
Twenty minutes have gone by…the tea is cold…the book is upside down on your chest.
You wake up…feeling rejuvenated.

Do you ever put worship music on and sing loudly as you do the dishes?
Do you ever put quiet music on and lay on the floor or your bed and get lost in the melody?
For a short time, you were transported…above the fray…above the din.
You feel…peaceful.

Do you ever sit with your Bible in front of you and read the poetry of the Psalms?
Do you ever quietly ponder the magnificence of every word Jesus ever spoke?
Are you in awe of the fact that this is God’s word to you?
You rejoice because you feel…renewed.

Jesus invites us to recharge our batteries by coming to Him.
We come to Him with our battery icon on red…and walk away recharged.

I am the vine and you are the branches. If a man remains in Me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from Me you can do nothing. (John 15:5)

We try everything else except coming to Jesus to be recharged.
Every other power source is lacking.

I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge – that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations for ever and ever. Amen. (Ephesians 3:16-21)

Power through His Spirit.
Filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Battery charged.
Ready to go forth in Him…and through Him…in order to serve Him.

Go to Jesus…be with Him…check your battery frequently.
No more running on empty!