Isa 32:18

18 And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;

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One day I waited on the phone for 30 minutes with the Help Desk, only for them to ask, "Have you rebooted?"

What’s sad is that I had to be told that more than once. When things got busy, I forgot.

A simple reboot fixed my problem.

How many times does God have to remind us that when life gets hectic….we need a reboot?

We don’t need a new drug, a new spouse, a new location, new parts or anything….we just need to start again, fresh with what we already have been given.

 We need to shut down our excessive programs and start afresh.

Remembering this occasion, it made me research why reboots are necessary and what happens with a reboot:

Sometimes a reboot is necessary because we have too many programs running at the same time. We have opened too many and then there are others open that were a result of system defaults.  In the human mind, we have things we consciously focus on and then there are things in the background of our minds that are still running, taking up spiritual RAM.

A reboot shuts all of this down and has the computer restart from anew.  By using the TASK Manager you can shut down excessive programs and ensure that your memory is strong enough to work on your most important tasks.  Sadly though sometimes a more thorough reboot is needed.  This is true when you have a virus. What many people don’t want to admit to anyone is that they attained a virus by allowing something into their hard drive that was evil like pornography. Sometimes you need to reboot your computer to “factory settings”, where all memory and work is erased.  You set the computer back to the settings of the MAKER.

When a computer reboots it goes quiet…no emails…no fan blowing…no heat…no programs…just for a moment or longer….quiet…stillness…..


(Scriptures regarding quietness and stillness)

Matt 6:6

6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

KJV

Ps 23:2-3

2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.

What are we spiritually reminded of when we are rebooted back to our factory settings without all those programs going at once:

REST

Heb 4:9-11

9 So there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God. 10 For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His. 11 Therefore let us be diligent to enter that rest, so that no one will fall, through following the same example of disobedience.

LOVE

1 John 4:16-18

16  We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 17 By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear

Protection

Zech 2:1-5

2  Then I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, there was a man with a measuring line in his hand. 2 So I said, "Where are you going?" And he said to me, "To measure Jerusalem, to see how wide it is and how long it is." 3 And behold, the angel who was speaking with me was going out, and another angel was coming out to meet him, 4 and said to him, "Run, speak to that young man, saying, ' Jerusalem will be inhabited without walls because of the multitude of men and cattle within it. 5 'For I,' declares the Lord, 'will be a wall of fire around her, and I will be the glory in her midst.'"

With the hectic natures of your days….don’t forget to reboot!!!!

James 1:23-25

23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:

24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

KJV