Sudden...

revelation as I was using the laptop just now. I was happily logging on to gmail, after the discovery that I could use the internet at the new desk, and the computer suddenly began to hibernate. I was like...why? Did I spoil the laptop because of last week's shifting and it showing signs of crankiness? So I thought, cannot be. So I looked at the back of the laptop to confirm, and lo, the laptop was not hooked to the power supply as I thought it was.

And my sudden revelation? At that point, I just felt the Holy Spirit say this - we as Christians need to ALWAYS be connected to the power source. Sounds cliched? Like a laptop, many of us have 'spiritual batteries' that we charge up when we go for cell and church on the weekends, when we do plug in to the Power Source. But as soon as we hit the week, MONDAYS, we unplug ourselves from God, and somehow try to survive the rest of the five days on battery charged from the weekend.

No wonder we always feel dry when we come to God during cell or church services. The only way for us to keep having the power, not battery power, but real sustaining power and Holy Spirit power is to be connected to the Power and Energy Source throughout the week, throughout the day, throughout the hour, every minute and second, with every breath we breathe.

Face it, without Christ and the Holy Spirit in our daily lives, can we truly say we are leading the Christian life? If we say we can, then we are lying to ourselves and the people around us, because we are then living the Christian life our own way, through our strength. People will not truly see Christ living through us, but a shell and form of Christianity lived through our own strife.

The only way to be hooked up to the Power Source is through abiding in the God. We all can easily quote John 15, but can we live it? Do we live it?

The key is in 1 Thessalonians 5:17: Pray without ceasing. We must be in constant communion with God, in constant conversation with the Lover of our souls. Isn't that what God so desires? For His children, for His Bride to return to that place where He intended Adam to be, walking in the cool of the evening, just talking to Him and enjoying His presence.

Jesus payed so high a price not only for our sins to be washed and forgiven, but for the veil to be rent, so that we can approach God without any condemnation or ritualistic sacrifice. So why aren't we fulfiling our position as God's creation and entering into the Holiest of holies, like Moses did, staying and lingering in His presence, having such a fellowship with Him, sharing His burden, standing in the gap for others, such that we can be called friends of God?

It is no wonder why our faces don't shine with the glory of God. :))