Charging Up
Mundane tasks; sometimes hard work that goes unappreciated. So many things can drain you of the energy in your battery cells. Though the keys of life are in the ignition to start your day, many times you feel your whole being refuses to “turn on,” as if your battery was dead.
If you were a running machine, you could simply replace the battery, or check if you had some loose unconnected wire and reconnect them. However, you are not a machine, as the psalmist says,
“You are fearfully and wonderfully made, your inward parts were formed, and you were knit together.” -Psalm 139:13-14
This knowledge is beyond comprehension. The preacher rightly stated in Ecclesiastes,
”As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones are formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.”-Ecclesiastes 11:5
So, if you are not a machine and you are knit together with sinews and bones, how then do you charge yourself?
By filling your mind with His Word, which is power
“For the word of God is living and powerful.”-Hebrews 4:12
2. By prayer
The wire that connects His power to charge us with “positive energy.”
“When my life was ebbing away [fainting, without charge], I remembered you, LORD, and my prayer rose to you, to your holy temple. But I, with shouts of grateful praise, will sacrifice to you. What I have vowed I will make good. I will say, ‘Salvation comes from the LORD.”-Jonah 2:7,9
Did Jonah receive salvation from the LORD? Yes! God spoke and ordered the fish to spit Jonah out onto the beach.
Why did the God of the universe knit us?
He knit us to learn his commandments. The psalmist in Psalm 119:73 says,
“Your hands have made me and fashioned me; give me understanding to learn Your commandments”-Psalm 119:73
Why does the God of the universe charge us with His power?
To walk worthily of the Lord: pleasing in all, bringing forth fruit in every good work, and growing in the knowledge of God, (Colossians 1:10) and to be useful for HIS service for His Kingdom.
To receive and transmit energy in and through you and to others- you have to some qualities-
Submission
”During the days of Jesus' life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with fervent cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission.”-Hebrews 5: 7
2. Wise tongue
“For the Scriptures say, "If you want to enjoy life and see many happy days, keep your tongue from speaking evil and your lips from telling lies”-1 Peter 3:10
So, if you find the battery of your cells slowing dying, then check its cause-
a) Is it loosely connected wires? –then reconnect your wires through the source of energy through prayer.
b) Is it overexertion? –then discipline yourself to go slow and relax. Take a rest.
Recharge and renew to re-energize yourself, to live your life to the fullest as God intended.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Susan John is a mother to her two grown-up sons, a teacher, a writer who works as a teacher in a Secondary school in Qatar. Susan enjoys studying God's word using the verse-mapping and FEAST method. She also runs a YouTube channel titled "Everyday morsels" through which she encourages her listeners with His Word. Encouraging and extending her prayer support to struggling women on different continents is her calling. Reading, journaling, sewing, and quilting are what she enjoys doing in her free space of time. Susan and John live in their empty nest in Doha, Qatar now.