Your Hard Drive

I am Crucified with Christ, nevertheless I LIVE, yet not I, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh.I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me

Galatians 2:20

*********************

As I was worshipping the Lord this morning the concept

became so clear to me of being crucified with Christ.

It is a lifelong process to crucify the worldly, and become Christlike in our goals, thinking and inner being.

When a computer is built, it has something called a hard drive. It is where all your data is stored. It is the core of your computer. Without a hard drive ... It will not run. Windows enables the computer to do many functions.But if the windows program stops working, your computer is useless to you.

When a technician rebuilds or sets up windows, he has two ways to do it. A dirty boot or a clean boot.A dirty boot, is where he installs windows over your old windows program. Sometimes this leaves behind vestiges of problems that can cause future errors, and in essence heartaches to you. A clean boot, is where he wipes the computer clean of data and rebuilds it. It is a fresh new start, a clean presence for you to build upon. Error free, and hopeful.

This is the way our lives should be. We should allow our old life to be crucified to Christ. Cleaned out, new, fresh, nothing of the old within. A daily surrender of our will, our pride, our old thinking and heart to Christ. If you build upon the old.. you are building on sand. You are building on pride, stubbornness, and will surely fail.

If you build new, upon the Rock of Christ, his teachings, His concepts, and allow Him to fill you, mold you, and use you, you will be blessed beyond your wildest dreams. Most folks never reach this point spiritually. Because someplace in their hard drive, they are still holding on to things that are not pleasing to God. They have hidden areas, or thoughts or mindsets they refuse to let go of. Sometimes it is unforgiveness, sometimes it is anger, or hurt, sometimes it is sin we want to keep doing. Whatever it is.. it is a dirty boot of your windows program, and if you want your spiritual life to work right, you need to do a clean boot, by crucifying yourself with Christ.

My friends, what are you standing for today? Are you defending sins that are not pleasing to God? Are you standing up for Him, or standing up for your own thinking? Who do you belong to, and how blessed do you truly feel?

You cannot prosper outside God's blessing and strength.

You may have some success upon this earth, but you cannot prosper and be blessed as long as you blockGod from working in any area of your life.So if your trials and daily life are grinding to a slow halt, if you are filled with depression, and despair. Perhaps you need to go to the source, who has all the answers you will ever need. Surrender your heart to Him, your will. Ask Him to show you how to live. Get in a good church... read the word of God, obsessively. Become addicted to it. Let it fill you with wisdom and hope and strength and renew your heart and mind into Christlike thinking.

Are you crucified with Christ today? There is no other way that will bring you home to God.

After this devotion, you will never again have a chance to say no one told me. I did. You need Jesus as your Savior. You need a clean boot in your hard drive.You need to clean out the old, and allow the New to reside in you.

Remember - Only one life, will soon be past - Only what is done for Christ will last