Is It Time To Rewire?
Old and faulty wiring systems can cause the entire electrical system to either trip or blow up the fuses or create a spark that can lead to a potential fire that can destroy your beautiful homes that were painstakingly designed and decorated. Although rewiring may seem a major investment, it is worth it to keep checking to see if your old wiring needs to be updated to reduce the risk of a fire and increase the value of your home.
Have you considered that sometimes you and I need a “spiritual rewiring” to preserve our temples? I realized I needed one, when I kept looking at a promising scripture that Jesus gave all His disciples in John 10:10:
“I have come that they may have life, and have it abundantly”.-John 10:10 NIV
I have read this scripture an umpteen number of times and I have gauged and questioned myself and my creator with these daunting questions. “If he came to give me life and life abundantly, then why am I running my home on a shoe-string budget? Why, Lord, I am not driving a Porsche or a Jaguar? Why Lord, I cannot afford to buy clothes from the designer boutiques or travel to the best listed holiday destinations in the world?” I have asked these questions repeatedly and felt disappointed with my life and God Himself for not keeping up with His promise.
It’s only when I understood the true meaning of the word “abundance” I realized that if I don’t rewire my thinking and my outlook and put myself on the right track, I will either head to the wrong destination treading on the broad way or burn down my spiritual temple with the old wiring of carnal-mindedness.
What’s abundance? Abundance is all that we cannot equate to money’s worth. All the intangible gifts of God which we seldom value are the “abundant blessings’’. Can we ever fathom the value of water, the life-sustaining compound for life and oxygen, the foremost life-sustaining element? The pandemic taught us to some extent it’s actual worth. When we heard and saw the hospital bills for oxygen cylinders when the raging coronavirus put the breath of life in jeopardy. Then I questioned myself, can money buy the gift of life?
To what can I trade the energy of the sun to? What could pay for the quiet production of food through the process of photosynthesis? I understood that as my Heavenly Father has given me all these to sustain my life on this earth without a price tag, I rarely measure its worth. If it had pinched my pocket, I would have been on my knees with my head on the ground, prostrated in gratitude every moment of my life on this earth.
Recent rains, floods in the Asian continent, the small shift in the distribution of water and oxygen in the earth-atmospheric system has caught my attention and is teaching me volumes. Then I read these lines by Abraham Hicks, which provoked my thoughts and got me focused.
“When you say abundance, it is the abundance of health, the abundance of clarity, the abundance of vitality, the abundance of enthusiasm, the abundance of delicious people in your life. The abundance of wonderful experiences in your life… as you start thinking in terms of this -abundance then doesn’t have anything to do with dollars”
This awakened me and I got myself untangled from the conceptual knots I was wired in to believe, that the more tangible possessions I had the richer I am. On the contrary, I am aware that the more intangible gifts I get to enjoy with a well-insulated wiring system that connects me in prayer with the all-powerful source, the more distinguishably rich I am.
Oh! What could I ever barter for the cost my Savior paid on the cross for my salvation and for my home he is preparing for me? Do I have anything in me to exchange for the grace, peace, and joy He has filled my life with? And so, hasn’t he blessed me with an abundant life.
And so, here I am down on my knees, seeking his forgiveness for questioning his promises with this prayer on my lips, “Rewire my thinking Lord, lest I be carnal minded and be infused with the sin of the daughters of Sodom of being arrogant, overfed and unconcerned, and tread the way that leads to destruction through the gate that is wide and broad” (Ezekiel 16:49; Matthew 7: 13)
Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.
May you and I always keep a check on our wiring system. Let us always keep a watch that the culture of this world “does not trip or break our circuit” we have with our Heavenly Father.
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.