Batteries Need Recharging?

It’s vacation time. School’s out and a great number of people are headed to a wide variety of places to ‘recharge their batteries.’ Just as our cell phones when batteries get low, people need to refill.

Constant use of batteries takes all their energy, and the schedules of our lives do the same. Vacations are a time of relaxation, of slowing down to view the world from a different perspective. In this economy, some of the trips are closer to home – some may be just staying at home, to the detriment of our travel industry! Whether far or near, they are, at the very least, a change of pace.

Retirees do not need – nor do they get – the same type vacation as the employed, but we still need that change of pace. A certain amount of recharging.

That same need exists for Christians, in a slightly different manner. We don’t need to travel, we just need to be talking with God and fellowshipping with His children.

That we are His children has been confirmed many times in His word:

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: (John 1:12 KJV)

Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. (Matthew 5:9 KJV)

The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: (Romans 8:16 KJV)

According to His word, the early church spent a great deal of time together, with specific activities:

And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. (Acts 2:42 KJV)

For a Christian, the following is prayed for an unbeliever.

For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. (Ephesians 3:14-19 KJV)

When our batteries are fully charged with God’s love, we can pray that prayer with truth and love. And, that is a very good thing, for the Bible tells us:

The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. (James 5:16 KJV)