Recently I made the switch from being a PC user to solely using APPLE products.  It was not an easy transition because I have become very familiar with the software that operates on the PC system.  Making the transition to Apple meant that I would have to transition to new Software, which was very different from what I had learned to appreciate.  Not only was the software different, how you even worked on the Apple system meant relearning basic operations.  

While I was thinking about the difference between two operating systems, it reminded me of the radical change of operating system (Nature) that occurs at Salvation. The Bible says that when we come to Christ He rips out our old nature, heart,and operating system and replaces it with a new heart, perfect nature, and Spirit operating system.  With this new Spirit operating system you are able to comprehend and understand things about God that either did not make sense, or just left you ignorant.  In fact, those who do not operate in the Spirit see the mysteries of Heaven as foolishness.  A fact that is easily illustrated by many people around you that view your character, integrity, love, and faith as being weak minded and disillusioned.  Yet we know these mysteries to be truth because they can only be spiritually discerned by people operating in the Spirit.   

So are you taking full advantage of your new operating system, your new nature. the spirit living inside of you.  There are so many secret mysteries and revelations that the Creator of the universe is waiting to show you.  The Bible promises that if we seek we will find. So isn't it time for you and I to download the mysteries of Heaven so that we can experience the blessings of Heaven on Earth?

Well the announcement is out and Apple is releasing the next new tech item that everyone is in a frenzy to put their hands on, the I-phone 5.  Isn’t it amazing how we have to do almost anything to own one of these toys and in 6 months we are ready for the next version to come out.  We are a culture that moves from craze to craze trying to fill that unquenchable desire to maintain the excitement we feel when we get the next greatest thing.  Yet as we release all that passion into the next empty purpose, we miss the real distraction that is occurring in our lives.  Each of these quests to accomplish the next greatest move or buy the newest thing, rob all of us of the perspective that people are going to Hell all around us.  And we will sleep outside a Best Buy to be the first to by a cell phone that from the moment you buy it is losing value.  Rather than being inconvenienced so we can preach the kingdom of God to people, where the moment they get saved that person’s value increases.  There is no other pursuit with lasting rewards like the pursuit of a Soul.  Today I would like to encourage to ask yourself, “What is the pursuit of my life?”  In order to find what should be the answer for our life we need to look at the life of Jesus. His only pursuit came down to one phrase, “Seek and to Save that which are lost.”  When He died we inherited that pursuit in the “Will.”

Have you ever heard the statement, "Seeing is believing"?  Well that is not always the case.  In fact, many times you can be looking right into the eyes of God and not even really know it.  In the Book of John, we see an interesting dialogue between Jesus and His disciples.  Now, we know that the disciples left their careers and families to follow Jesus wherever he went because they believed in him. So it is interesting when we read in John 16:30, "Then Jesus' disciples said, "Now we can see that you know all things and that you do not even need to have anyone ask you questions. This makes us believe that you came from God."  Jesus is getting ready to go to the Cross and finally after three years the disciples say, "We Believe". Wow!  From the time the disciples started following Jesus they believed in this idea of who he was and what he was going to do.  However, as they walked with him, that belief system was constantly being challenged and downright contradicted on a daily basis.  They were trying to hang on to beliefs that were just not true. It wasn't until they had the “OHHHHH moment” that they were completely able to believe in Jesus. Many Christians are trying to put the reality of Jesus in their physical, limited, and in this world box. The scriptures often don't fit in to that paradigm. We believe in Jesus, but we interpret him through our lens of limitations.  It is when we look through our glasses and ask God to heal our eyes that we will share the same kind of moment that Disciples had. OOOOOHHHH!