Biblia

INTIMACY, IMPORTANCE OF

INTIMACY,
IMPORTANCE OF

WE HAVE a sprinkler system in our lawn, and there was a time a few years ago that I couldn’t get it to come on. I called a serviceman over and asked him to take a look at it. He looked at my water sprinkler for about an hour or so. Then he came back and said the wire that makes the electrical contact from the timer to the system unit and tells the sprinkler to come on was not connected. My lawn was supposed to be automatically watered by the sprinkler system at set days and times. The timer didn’t work so the sprinkler didn’t water. If you were to drive by my house, you would discover that my green lawn was starting to turn brown. The longer the sprinkler was inoperative, the more brown the grass was getting. The problem wasn’t that my sprinkler system wasn’t working, nor was the problem that I didn’t have water. It just wouldn’t turn on because the wire from the timer had broken contact with the mechanism that lets my system know to turn this on.

Some Christians have lives that are getting brown. Some of them have lost their greenness. Some of them do not have abundant life anymore. It’s not because there’s a water problem. Jesus says in the Word that He will give us a well that will spring up into eternal life. It’s not because there is a power problem, because Jesus says in the Word that He will give us the Holy Spirit, whose job it is to power the pump and to get the water working. The problem is that the wire that connects your will with His power has been disconnected, so there is no flow of water and your life is turning brown instead of staying green. If you’re developing a brown lawn in your life, it may be because there’s a connection problem.498

[Bible, Application of; God, Knowing; Jesus, Relationship with; Prayer]

Prov. 8:34; James 1:22