Deacon's Diary

Deacon's Diary for Sunday-June 1st

deaconlwg | June 05, 2008 05:47

Deacon's Diary is a weekly feature that appears on the back side of the bulletin at the First Baptist Church of Avalon, Texas.

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If you have read any of my writings in the past, you probably already know that I spend a lot of time out on the road. Almost every week will find me out there somewhere away from home at least two nights a week. It comes with the job I 've got. It's just the way it works.


On every trip I take my cell phone with me. I need it to stay in contact with every one back home. With Kay and/or the boys. I need it to stay in contact with the office too, just in case they need to dispatch me in a different direction. The shipper might need to contact me also, just to make changes.
You get the point. That cell phone is an important tool when I get out there on the road. But one day last week I left out with no way to charge it up. I had the phone, but the battery was low and getting lower. It started blinking and beeping at first, and when it got low enough it shut itself down. Leaving me with no communication to any one back home, or in the office, or anywhere.


I looked at the phone after it died and thought how worthless it was without any power. Just a shell made of plastic and silicone and whatever else they put into those kind of things. With out a source of power it wasn't worth the cost of the materials it was made out of. Not much more than a paper weight.


To make it even worse, I thought about all the electrical power right there around me in the cab of that truck. That truck has three big batteries in it. But without the proper charger I had no way of tapping into them.  In the distance ahead of me I saw lightning and thought of all that electrical power. All this power around me I thought, but with no way at all to connect to it. 


Just about then I saw the sun setting down behind me. A great source of power. But since the phone isn't solar powered, that doesn't work either.


All this thinking about that stupid phone got me to thinking about another kind of battery. The spiritual batteries we all have as Christians. Like that phone, we too need charging. Like that phone we have a way of connecting to that Power Source that is greater than all of those mentioned above combined and then multiplied. It's called prayer. Made possible by the Son. Delivered to us in the form of the Holy Spirit. May you never leave home without it.

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