Sometimes we just need to reboot

 When I came into the church office this morning I tried to call a church member. There was no dial tone on the phone. I checked with the office administrator and learned she didn't have a dial tone either, and a couple of people had called in and they could not hear one another. We assumed the power outage last Sunday had fried our phones and were looking into replacing them. I suddenly thought that maybe if I unplugged my phone and plugged it back in it would reboot. It worked!

Sometimes we need to reboot our spiritual lives as well. When someone has been a Christian for a long period of time it's easy to begin taking our spiritual lives for granted. We stop reading our Bibles as we did as new believers. We pray when we think about it. We find it easier to not attend church services than it used to be. Suddenly, we feel distant from God and wonder what happened. We know God hadn't moved so it must be us who have began to distance ourselves from Him.

At some point in our lives most of us will need to reboot our relationship with God. That doesn't require that we disconnect with him as it did with the phone. It just requires that we return to doing the things we did when we first became Christians. We spend time in prayer, in reading the Bible and in attending the worship services. We find ways to serve others on His behalf. We ask God to restore unto us the joy of our salvation.

We can be certain the devil will attempt to stop our efforts to reboot our relationship with God. He has invested a lot in luring us away from that relationship, and he will not let go easily. It's important that we surround ourselves with people who will help us rebuild our relationship with God. That's one reason it's so important that we are faithful in being active in our church. Everywhere there are people and other things that work to pull us away from God; we need persons and activities in our lives that will encourage us to grow in our relationship with God.

If you live in the Westport, Indiana area, and you need to reboot your relationship with God we would love to walk with you through that. If you don't live in the area, find a good Bible-believing church to help you.  If you've never invited Christ into your life but feel this is the time, please contact us. If you just want to ask questions about what it means to be a Christian, please feel free to DM me. I would love to talk with you about that.