History

There's a habit that I've gotten into since I first received my MacBook Pro.

After I switch from one web page to the next, I clear the history. 

Yes, after every single web page switch.

For example, if I'm on Facebook, and I want to go to Youtube, I click on 'Youtube' in my Bookmarks bar and then immediately go to the History tab and click 'Clear History...' so that there is no history left from the previous web page. And I do all of that without even thinking about it!

But, there is a very good reason that I clear the history after every page. 

The internet server that I work off of in my house generally has a relatively bad connection, and it causes web pages to load very slowly. And so, when I was first testing out ways to make web pages load more quickly, one of the things I tried was clearing the history. After I had done so, the web page that I had been trying to connect to loaded almost instantly! It was rather miraculous in my opinion.

So, since then I have become accustomed to habitually clearing my history, since it helps my internet to function properly.

When we sin, we are cut off from God; we are hindering our relationship with Him. We can't move forward in our faith if we have sins blocking our blessings.

We become like my internet when I don't clear the history: disconnected. 

God wants to free us from our sin (clear our history for us), so that our relationship with Him (our web pages) can be whole and intact (can operate properly and be fully functional).

So, go now and ask God to release you from the bind of sin so that you can be bound to Him through Jesus Christ who's wounds have paid our ransom!

AMEN.

Unattainable

It is March 1st today.

Including today, it is 20 days until I turn 20 on the 20th of March. But, I'm not entering my 20th year of being alive. 

Think back to the day you were born...okay, I realize you can't remember that, but at least think back to when you were told that you had finally entered this world.

You were 0 for a whole year before you turned 1, am I right? But when you were 0, that whole year was your 1st year of being alive. So when you turned 1, you were entering your second year of life.

This reminds me of how we are when we pursue God. We will NEVER be able to grasp the vastness of His wisdom or the greatness of His power! (Not until we enter heaven, of course.) Just as we are NEVER going to be the age of the year that we are entering!

Why pursue God if you are guaranteed never to figure Him out completely?

I ask you, why ELSE would you want to pursue Him?

The things of this Earth all have an ending, a finishing point, an achievable completeness, while God's greatness, His power, and His love are never-ending and wholly incomprehensible! 

And this is why I serve my wonderful Jesus.