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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.
Vance Havner
It looks like you are going through hard times but really it is God shaking things up to make you look and realize. Hey get back on track with me and it will be good.
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My son is a dirt magnet. He can take a bath in the morning and not look it by early afternoon without going outside. But kids will be kids. They will make mud pies. And they will find every last drop of mud.
One day, after a good rain, there was a puddle in my yard. It was in a place where very little grass grew. It was full of mud.
My son, and two of his sisters decided it would be fun to play in the mud. It wasn’t about the water… it was the mud. It wasn’t dirt, it was mud. Gooey and sloppy. That was all that counted. They were almost totally covered like chocolate covered candy.
I cannot imagine how much fun I was missing out on.
It came time for them to come inside. But not in my house. There was no way that three of the muddiest children in the county were going to just trample through the house and leave little muddy footprints all over the place. No way. Not in my house. Can you imagine the mess? How can the house stay clean with these messy, muddy monsters?
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But I love these mud people. They deserve to be in my house. What was I to do? They all needed a bath. But getting to the tub meant making a pilgrimage through the house. Getting there meant leaving more mud throughout the house than what gets washed down the drain.
The end result was simple. Get the garden hose. Rinse them off before they stepped inside the house. Then they can make the pilgrimage through the front door. It was the only way. I had to do that so that the children I loved could come into my house.
People are naturally sinful. It is our nature. It is how we are born, into sin. It is easy for us to get all muddy in sin. Messy, gooey sin. Covered from the tops of our heads to the tips of our toes. We can tend to get covered like
We cannot enter into His house when we are muddy.
In these ways we continue;
And we need to be saved.
But we are all like an unclean thing,
And all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags
But don’t worry, there is still hope. Just as I started by washing my own children with a hose, you too can be washed clean. All you have to do it ask God for forgiveness. He will forgive you of your sins. But don’t just do it with your words, do it with your heart. Your actions will follow.
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My computer has recently started acting funny. It would randomly take more time than normal to do average tasks such as opening a program. Programs would also stop working causing it to freeze and require rebooting in some cases.
I started getting a pop-up window notifying me of computer hard drive failures. It has been a good laptop. It has taken it’s fair share of abuse. I cannot count the number of times it fell to the floor. Thinking back, I am surprised that it lasted as long as it did.
But here lies my problem. With the cost of a new drive, and the cost of the other repairs needed, it is not worth fixing. Prices are at a low with the expectation of the new version of MS Windows coming out. So, I found a deal on a new laptop.
Now, I could simply transfer the files over with my computer skills. That would be a breeze for me. But, what if my hard drive was already dead? What would I do? How would I then get my files back?
Most business should have a Disaster Recover Plan. This plan is a simple outline, guideline or procedure for fixing or replacing computer failures. It can be complex for large businesses or simple for small ones.
I am not a business, but just an average guy with a blog. I have a simple Disaster Recovery Plan.
I back up my files online for FREE.
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Yes, for free. And you can too. I use a program called Syncplicity. When I got my new laptop, I was able to use Syncplicity to download my files to my new computer.
Click on the link above and we we both get extra storage space.
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
Does something have to be tangible to be real? Do you have to use any of your five senses to know God exists?
What proof would you accept to know God is real?
Or how would you know that God is real?
Why do you believe that God it real? Or why don’t you believe that God it real?
