Deacon's Diary

Deacon's Diary for Sunday-July,13th

deaconlwg | July 13, 2008 21:42

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

Eternal software.

The computer crashed on Thursday. It crashed hard too. All was lost. Everything in the computers memory was now locked in the hard drive and there was no way to get any of it out. Pictures. Songs on the I-pods. Favorite web sites. Even the template I use for the church bulletin was now gone. Me and Kay now had to start over from scratch.


There is an old saying that all of us have heard at one time on another that goes something like, "you never really miss something so much 'til its gone." That saying rings true in this situation. All the stuff on the computer that we use on a daily basis, or at least on a weekly basis, is not there any more. A lot of it we will miss immediately. Other things will not be missed until later on. When we need it. When we, ourselves remember that it used to be there.


On the bright side, now we have a new computer. This new one is faster. A lot faster. Better than the one we had before. It has a lot more capacity. And, for now any way, it is not weighed down with a lot of programs and/or information that might slow it down. It is quick and clear. It's brand new. It is loaded with new and better software that is easier to use. It is not bogged down and sluggish like the old one had become right before it broke down and crashed.


Thinking about this computer situation got me to thinking about my salvation. How before I was saved I had become something not unlike that old computer. Bogged down, sluggish, and tired of carrying around a life time of sin and anguish. Then, like that old computer, I crashed. Lucky for me I crashed in a good place. When I realized that God had forgiven me of my sins it turned me into something not unlike the new one. Loaded up with eternal software.

 

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