Maintenance

Every spring, if you have a lawn to care for, is time to pull the lawn equipment back out of storage and with crossed fingers, hope everything starts up and runs as it should. Now, one thing’s for sure, what we do with the equipment before storing them for the winter will dictate how they start and run in the spring, and just throwing them in a corner of the garage without draining the fuel and running the engine until it depletes all the gas and shuts off, will pretty much guarantee that starting them in the spring will be near impossible. Maintenance is the key, and this is one way of comparing what we need to do in our lives as we follow Christ. If we don’t manage our lives in a manner of maintenance and paying attention to details, not throwing areas of our lives into a closet and shutting the door, thinking; I don’t have time to deal with that right now, I’ll get back to it later, and then realizing the backlash that happens from that ignorance once it becomes a huge problem, a pattern begins to happen in our lives where we begin to think that it doesn’t matter, and that we can just close the door on things or throw them away and start new, when we are not lawn mowers or weed eaters that can be replaced, and that maintenance is key! So much of our lives require maintenance that we ignore, especially relationships, and restarting the engine of love that is supposed to rule our lives in Christ, becomes harder than if we would have just put in the proper maintenance. Philippians 2:1 Therefore if there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and mercy, 2 fulfill my joy by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. 3 Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. 4 Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others. ¿Keeping in step with our Lord and making things better in our lives requires attention for each other that makes all things work as they should, and instead of scrapping what we lackadaisically care for, we can recondition what should never be thrown away, and that’s our love for one another. Father, make me a maintenance man for Your Kingdom! In Christ’s name, Amen