Wiped Clean

It's been about an hour since I've gotten my mac back from the Genius bar at the Apple Store. As I was working on photoshop two days ago, the little "rainbow wheel of death" mouse icon came up. And then a clicking noise follwed... not a good sound to hear. So I took it to the Genius bar at the Apple store and they said what I had feared the most... hard drive is fried, gonzo, toast. "So now what?" I asked. "Well it will be about $215 for the hard drive, and about $85 for installation." Not what I wanted to here. But he wasn't finished talking. "...but you don't have to pay anything. It's all free." I don't know how, I don't know why, but obviously I'll take it! Where do I sign?!

And as I was sitting here rebooting all my applications, I realized how it relates to my faith.

To be honest, I have not been the man has called me to be lately. I'm struggling to find the desire to read his Word or to spend time with the Lord. I seem to hit this slump when I come home because i don't have a set schedule to my day. My job hasn't started and my class is at night, so I have all day to do whatever I want. I need structure. You would think with so much time I should be soaking up all the time I can. Well I'm not. And I know I should.

So today is a day of rebooting for both myself and my computer. I'm starting clean. I've been taking to the "genius bar", fixed and made clean, and I'm ready to start all over again. I know it's pretty corny and maybe far-fetched, but it's how my mind works. I know i'm not the smartest, or very normal at times, but it's how I was wired. And the coolest part is that we're all made new, cleansed, wiped clean, at NO COST to us. All of the cost was paid on the cross over 2000 years ago. Praise the Lord for his unending grace and mercy.

I wish I could say that I've always been strong and had a faith that is unwavering, but it would be a lie.

Here's to God's grace, love, and mercy. I get another chance. And so do you. Praise the Lord.

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Ephesians 2:8-10