I use laptops, one at work, and my own at home. For one meeting, I moved all of the required technical components into a conference room, hooked up the network cable, plugged in, and then moved the mouse. Now wait a minute – why isn’t the cursor moving? I moved it, clicked it, moving the little mouse wheel thing, clicking right and left – nothing! All of this took about thirty seconds and then I moved ever so slightly to my right and realized that the mouse wasn’t plugged in. I had to laugh. Of course it can’t work if it’s not plugged in.
What do I need to plug into? Faith, friends, family, hope, love, laughter, work, and prayer. But, sometimes I get plugged into distractions, moments of discord, stress, and struggles. Then, the proverbial mouse doesn’t work as well in what I want it to do. I have to be “plugged in” to the right things for the motion to work, for action to occur.
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Motion Lights
Have you ever seen, or perhaps have lights which come on based on the motion they sense? Walking past the corner of the garage, the lights flicker based on the motions. Once they are on, it is much easier to see for me, brightening up a dark spot. However, they can also serve as a security sensor – if someone else is walking past and not supposed to be there, the light can show that presence.
Jesus warned his disciples to “keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come, (Matthew 24: 41). To keep watch, it implies very readily that there is a need to be watchful and alert. “So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him,” (Matthew 24:44).
Sometimes, it may seem that the wait is too long, that the master is away for so long that you have been forgotten. The verses that follow in Matthew 24, those of 45-50, provide both an encouragement and a admonishment. That the master, put the servants in charge, with trust that upon return the servants would be judged. Then, it is dependent upon the servant to decide how they will act while unsupervised, so to speak.
When teaching, I once mentioned to a student that he should live in such a way that he would find people admiring his honor and behavior in both groups and alone. It is not easy to do such, but I want to be a servant who is faithful.
Jesus warned his disciples to “keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come, (Matthew 24: 41). To keep watch, it implies very readily that there is a need to be watchful and alert. “So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him,” (Matthew 24:44).
Sometimes, it may seem that the wait is too long, that the master is away for so long that you have been forgotten. The verses that follow in Matthew 24, those of 45-50, provide both an encouragement and a admonishment. That the master, put the servants in charge, with trust that upon return the servants would be judged. Then, it is dependent upon the servant to decide how they will act while unsupervised, so to speak.
When teaching, I once mentioned to a student that he should live in such a way that he would find people admiring his honor and behavior in both groups and alone. It is not easy to do such, but I want to be a servant who is faithful.
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