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Have you ever had a battery that seems to lose its charge about five minutes after you charge it? Our family has a few like that. Our digital camera batteries "die" after only a few pictures (thankfully, we are getting a new camera in about a week!) Or there are the other kind of batteries that seem to last forever. Take the batteries in my mom's alarm clock, for example! She hasn't had to replace them in forever!

I think that we can liken batteries to our spiritual life. For me it is like this: I go to church on Sunday. I get my battery all charged up for the Lord. That night when I go to bed I am thinking about how great God is. Monday morning -- I am still charged, but I have lost a little overnight. So I get out my Bible and get charged up a little bit again. By the next day I need to be charged again! And then for several minutes after I read my Bible I am totally charged. I am thinking about the Lord again, my focus is on Him, and I want to please Him with everything I do today. Then a distraction comes along and my mind goes off of the Lord.

Suppose you had a battery that almost jumped around in your hand, once you had charged it, it had so much energy! :o) Then you put it into your... um, camera, for instance! :o) It worked great for a little while and then after a few minutes a message appeared on the screen that said "Change the battery pack." Suppose you only charged the battery once a week. You would not get much accomplished, would you?! So, you would need to charge the battery often. You would need to charge it every day. This is why we need to read the Bible every day. You may be all "charged up" for a little while, and then lose your charge. If you are not "charged up" for the Lord, how will you get things accomplished for Him?

You may just go through the motions once you "lose your charge," but the Lord does not want us to become robotic! So this is why it is important to read the Bible and pray every morning.

Besides getting charged for the day, personal devotions will also help you to get to know the Lord better! The more you get to know Him, the more you will love Him, and the more you know and love Him, the more you will want to read His word!

So what kind of battery are you? Are you the kind of battery that stays charged up for the Lord for a long time, or are you a batter that needs to be charged frequently? There are good things and bad things about each. The good thing about staying charged for a long time is that you are continually thinking on the Lord. You are constantly meditating on His word, and you love Him with all your heart. The problem with this is that perhaps you will feel that since you are thinking so much on the Lord you do not need to spend as much time with Him (it is not necessary to be totally drained to get charged up again)!

The good thing about a person with a battery that does not stay charged up very long is that they will realize the need to spend more time with the Lord and will do so (hopefully!!) The bad thing is that perhaps you will forget about the Lord and will go about your day without even a thought of Him!

So we need to be careful to get charged up every day -- whether you THINK you need it or not (you do :o)  ). Ask yourself, "What kind of battery am I?"