Sometimes circumstances and situations make it hard
for you to find your blessings.
Sunday, I walked over to the chest freezer we have at my church.
It sat in an area we are developing as a little kitchenette/fellowship hall. It was
bright-white, shiney even, sitting there looking as good as could be.
When I lifted its lid, to inspect and inventory its contents, a stench arose the likes of
which I have not had invade my nose in ages.
It was the smell of decomposition, rotting.
Inside the bright, shiney white chest, was rotting meat. Someone, perhaps even me,
had accidently pulled the plug on the freezer, thinking they were unplugging the coffee
urn that sits nearby. The two chords are similar in looks and size. Regardless
of how it happened, the results remain the same ... no power, no cooling, and rotten meat.
I had plenty of time to think as I slowly took each smelly packet from the depth of the
freezer and deposited it in an awaiting trash can. After not being frozen for an
unknown period of time, it no longer was edible. It even was hard being around it.
The stentch was over bearing.
So I worked and I thought, trying to keep my mind off the smell.
Then my blessing came. God spoke to me in the midst of a smelly, disgusting,
disappointing situation.
You see people walking around you ever day, who are just like the freezer.
They can be pretty, seem vibrant and care free, but still can rotten at the core.
We can not see to the inside a person, so we do not know their inner conditions. We
can not open their lid like we can a freezer's.
And why would they be rotten on the inside? Because, like the freezer they're not
connected to the power.
Like the plug on heavy duty equipment, such as freezers, our power is drawn from one
source through three prongs. It is from our Holy Trinity: God, the Father and God the Son
and God the Holy Ghost.
As good as the freezer looked, as functional as it was, it was not worth anything if it
was not plugged into the power.
We can be as smart as an Einstein. We can be as pretty or as handsome as a movie
star. We even can be as strong and atheletic as an olympian. But if we are not
plugged into the power, something is going to spoil on our inside.
It was a shame to have that nice freezer sitting there, not plugged in. It could not
do what it was capable of doing, preserving food.
It would be a shame if you are sitting around, not plugged into the power that God has
given you. Unplugged, you can not do what you are capable of doing, preserving
your soul.
A plugged in freezer saves, so does a plugged in Christian.
Sometimes, even when we are plugged in, we need a little power boost. That is when
we have to plug into the Holy Ghost and allow Him to jump start us.
God has allowed us to have a power source inside us. We only have to unleash
the power of the Holy Ghost by not quenching the Spirit. By not trying to do it all
on our own. By letting go and letting God.
It is then, that the Holy Ghost's power sees us through, when our natural
strength and abilities are not sufficent.
By the time I had pulled that last piece of spoiled meat from the freezer, God had
spoken to my heart. I washed the freezer out real good. Cleared the odor away
with a cleansing of baking soda, and plugged it back in.
With a hum, it kicked back into action. In a few seconds, you could feel the cold
returning to its interior. It was functional again once it was plugged back in.
As Christians, sometimes we become unplugged. Things seem to go rotten in our lives.
But then we realize something is not right. We ask Jesus for redemption, He
scours us with the cleansing power of His Salvation, and then He plugs us back in and we
again are preserved and functional.
