Your Spiritual 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 heart 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.

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,
and cleanse you of the past, and your sins, a clean start,
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, which means being cleansed ENTIRELY and starting
a new life TRANSFORMED by His thinking, concepts and calling upon your life.

My friends, what are you standing for today?

God says you are either for Him or against Him.
No middle ground!

Are you defending sins that are not pleasing to God?
Are you still making excuses about your lifestyle, saying
God forgives you and understands, or are you giving up
things He teaches that are wrong. The law of God makes
us recognize what God wants.. have you read it lately?

Are you standing up for Him, or standing up for your own thinking?

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 block
God 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.