Several years ago, I headed to the cell phone store to update our family plan. The young guy behind the counter said, \u201cLet me look at your usage and see how the current plan is working for everyone.\u201d <\/p>\n
He tapped on the computer keys, and in a few minutes, he said, \u201cSomebody keeps going over their text messaging limit.\u201d And then in a tone of awe, he uttered, \u201cIt\u2019s you. Wow, we\u2019ve never had anybody your age go over their limit before.\u201d As I told my husband later that evening, \u201cI\u2019m old, but evidently I\u2019m cool.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yes, I use my technology a lot. Take my laptop and cell phone away from me for a few days, and I\u2019ll go into withdrawal. I experienced that a little bit last year when we were in Canada, and my phone wouldn\u2019t work throughout most of the area where we were staying. I felt crippled. I\u2019d take my phone out to look up directions, do some research, jot down notes or to check out the menu of a restaurant, and then remember again that my phone\/internet wouldn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n
So you can imagine my consternation last week when I headed out for a long busy day and realized that my phone battery hadn\u2019t charged the night before and only had 4% power. I knew I\u2019d plugged it up to charge\u2014in fact, it was still hooked up to the charger cord\u2014so I couldn\u2019t figure out what happened.<\/p>\n
But then as I walked back through our family room a bit later, I realized why it hadn\u2019t charged. Yes, I\u2019d plugged the phone into the charger, but the other end of the cord had come unplugged from the outlet. I wasn\u2019t plugged into the power source. <\/p>\n
Friends, it\u2019s the same way for us spiritually. If we don\u2019t stay firmly plugged into God, our souls won\u2019t be charged for the journey each day, and we won\u2019t be ready for all the things we\u2019ll encounter.<\/p>\n
When we\u2019re plugged into Him, we can hear God\u2019s directions<\/a>, and anytime we need Him, we can just call out to Him. In Colossians 1:11, it says, \u201cStrengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness.\u201d No matter what comes into our lives, we\u2019ll never be powerless as long as we\u2019re connected to God<\/a>, our power source. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Several years ago, I headed to the cell phone store to update our family plan. The young guy behind the counter said, \u201cLet me look at your usage and see how the current plan is working for everyone.\u201d He tapped on the computer keys, and in a few minutes, he said, \u201cSomebody keeps going over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":27418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[15,16,36],"ppma_author":[474],"class_list":["post-17458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories-of-faith-and-hope","tag-faith","tag-god","tag-success"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n