Heading Toward A Crash?

The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. - John 10:10.

The word crash immediately brings to mind a car accident. But, that isn't the sort of crash I'm speaking of here. In fact, it's a crash that, hopefully, many of you will never have to go through.


This past week, We began to experiment bouts of 'illness' within my computer. We knew it was getting sick, but never did we think it was about to have a 'breakdown'. Well, Thursday night, that is exactly what happened. On Friday morning, I got up, thinking I'd work on my web site and  devotionals, only to find my machine would whine, jump between the CD Rom and Zip Drive, but never boot up to Windows. There was nothing we cuold do to bring it to life again. It had completely crashed - 'bit the dust'! So, now, I'm in the process of getting new parts to replace those 'sick' ones, to update this machine, and perhaps the failure won't happen again any way soon.


Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. - II Timothy 2:15.

Many Christians, as they go through their spiritual life, experience bouts of crashes. Some are more evident than others, in that they fully lose their trust in God. I have no answers as to why these people get down on God so badly.  Perhaps they have been dis-illusioned in their experience with other Christians, the church, etc. Perhaps they fell into complacency, and just lost out on their spiritual life. Whatever the reasons for their 'crash', God has a 'fix'. There
is nothng to bad that the Lord can't help a person to get back upon their 'spiritual feet', and be able to function as a fruit-bearing Christian.


We need to guard our minds and hearts from things contrary to the Word of God. If we constantly study the Word, let the Holy Spirit speak to us about the Word, then we will be more prepared to deal with things that come along that could be make us a potential crash victim.


Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, - Jude 1:24 .

Determination

"It is God himself, in his mercy, who has given us this wonderful 
work [of telling his good news to others], and so we never give up."
- 2 Corinthians 4:1 (TLB).

When the United Kingdom's back was against the wall during 
World War II, Winston Churchill declared: "We shall go to the end, 
we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, 
we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in 
the air, we shall defend our Island whatever the cost may be. We
shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and 
in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, 
and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a 
large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire 
 beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, 
would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the 
New World, with all its power and might steps forth to the rescue 
and the liberation of the old."


May we who call ourselves Christian have the same 
determination when coming against our arch enemy who himself, 
with his horde of evil spirits, is totally committed to destroying 
everything that is Christian and doing everything in his
power to stop people coming to Jesus and receiving God's gift 
of sins forgiven and eternal life.


In the words of the classic hymn:


Onward Christian soldiers
Marching as to war
With the cross of Jesus
Going on before.