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Apps For Life

The iPhone is all the rage these days. They really are an amazing gadget. I don’t have one, but I see folks touching the face of them to do everything from make a phone call to find the closest Chinese restaurant complete with GPS navigation and the price of the meal. I must confess that I am sometimes seized by phone envy. It just looks so inviting to have all that information at your finger tips.

The way I understand it, iPhone owners can download their choice of apps, or applications, to their phone. Evidently there are over 100,000 to choose from. With the appropriate app one has access to movies, music, food, directions, trivia, and the list goes on. Who would have ever thought of all that being accessible in moments all from a device that fits nicely in even a small pocket. From one who is still amazed by a radio and perplexed by how a fax machine works, the iPhone is way beyond my comprehension.


I was thinking about that when it I had an epiphany. As Christians we have apps too! What if all that we have accessible to us by walking with Christ was packaged like apps on the iPhone? Would we then believe in them more? Just think about it. Picture your own supernatural device complete with all the apps we every need bought and paid for, available to everyone that calls Jesus Christ their Lord and Savior.

How about the praise app? Scroll to that one. “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord” (Psalm 150:6) “How good it is to sing praises to our God, how pleasant and fitting to praise him!” (Psalm 147:1) Praising God, even when we don’t feel like it, combats the forces of evil, brings us in to communion with our Maker, and lifts our spirits too.


Could you use a power app? It’s there at your fingertips! Who of us wouldn’t want to take advantage of that one. 2 Timothy 1:7 says; “For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline”. As followers of Christ, we have at our disposal the powers of heaven. We are not weak and helpless. The God of Creation has empowered us to live this life in victory. Most often we tend to live this life as helpless and hopeless at the mercy of everything around us. The Word promises us the opposite. “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” (Romans 15:13)


Need some courage? There’s an app for that. We have the almighty God on our side, whom should we fear? In Deuteronomy 31:6 before the Israelites went into battle, Moses encouraged them with these words from the Lord. “Be strong and courageous. do not be afraid or terrified of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you or forsake you.” He went on to say in verse 8; “The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you or forsake you. do not be afraid; do not be discouraged”. Feeling more courageous, powerful, and victorious?


Peace, there’s an app for that. Mercy and grace, got those too. Righteousness, that one’s available. Prayer, an open line to God himself, there for the taking. The belt of truth, gospel of peace, helmet of salvation, sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God, all there. The inventory goes on and on. The benefits of being His child are indescribable, too wonderful to comprehend, and all we have to do is give ourselves to Him and “tap” in.


What a shame that we can sometimes be more enthusiastic about a technological gadget that God gave us the knowledge to develop than about all that He has to offer. Think about all that being his has to offer and scroll through the possibilities and “tap” in.


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