Wednesday 12 December 2012

Ctrl Alt del - Switch off switch on.

My head is full after another crammed day.  Not enough hours, too many things going at the same time, things left undone......
I wrote previously that I was Not a PC!  yet, perhaps I am one, more than I think.

I operate a little like an underpowered PC at times.  I have 'too many windows open' and this causes my 'screen to freeze'.  My 'task manager' pops up to warn me and I need to reset my thinking.

What is my Ctrl Alt del in real life?

Is it a coffee break?  (fat chance!)
Is it lunch? (even fatter)
Do I endure until I get home and 'Crash' in front of the TV?
Do I open the fridge and gaze within, looking for relief?

The bible calls these 'broken cisterns' (we go looking for water in broken wells).

Lamentations 3:40 Let us test and examine our ways and return to the Lord.

Often, our waking hours are a struggle to switch off.  Even when we hit the off button, sleep will not come.  I am grateful for God unplugging me at the wall and that usually, I sleep soundly.  Long, long before man made computers and we struggled to overcome them locking up by switching off and on again, God made it part of our system.

We need to be switched off and switched back on again - Isn't that what sleep is?  Hopefully, by morning I will have been rebooted with a whole new shot at the day.

Thank God for it.

Lamentations 3:22,23.  The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases.  His mercies never come to an end. They are new every morning.  Great is your faithfulness.

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