Crashes, glitches and faith …

My laptop computer is going through extended death throes. In fact, it actually died once and is now running off of a miraculous resurrection!

But this past week was a rough tech week. On one day alone, my laptop crashed 15 times! On other days, I lost a tremendous amount of time between the poor functioning of the computer and the glitchiness of programs. At times, I had to wonder if battling all the glitches was worth what I was trying to accomplish, yet I rely on a computer and internet access as primary tools for much of what I do.

I couldn’t help but see the correlation between the technical glitches I experienced and how “glitchy” Christians often tend to be. On Sunday mornings, they look good, act good, and smell good, but any time after worship service you never know what you might experience from them. Glitches strike! They don’t always look so good, act so good, or even smell so good. Many become wholly unreliable.

James addresses this rift of consistency in James 1:5-8, “5 If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and he will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking. 6 But when you ask him, be sure that your faith is in God alone. Do not waver, for a person with divided loyalty is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is blown and tossed by the wind. 7 Such people should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. 8 Their loyalty is divided between God and the world, and they are unstable in everything they do.”

If God wanted to use you as a primary tool for His work in this world, like a person uses a computer and the internet as primary tools, would you be a stable and efficient source to achieve His will, or would you be a frustratingly “glitchy” tool that works sometimes, but routinely crashes?

Scotty