Google Calendar and Salvation - is your life hidden with Christ in God?

Just a thought I want to get down somewhere...

This morning I went to the eye doctor to fix my broken glasses and I thought I should also schedule an appointment to get my eyes checked. When offered a reminder of my appointment date I held up my phone and said, "I got it - my whole life is in here".

Almost as soon as I said it I immediately had this scripture flood into my mind - Colossians 3:2-3 "Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God."

In the practical juggling of my physical life I am not smart enough to manage "me" on my own. I require a written (although electronic) plan and a loving wife to help me remember anything and to stay on track. In some very real ways I would be "lost" if anything happened to google-calendar.

In a sad way I was telling the truth that my physical life is hidden in google calendar with my Iphone. Without these tools that I have come to order my life with I don't know what I'd do?

My every appointment, plan, event, and hope for the future, even my desire to plan something in the future is first put on my calendar or I will forget what I have declared worth addressing in my life. If it is not filtered by my phone via google I won't even be given the time to think about.

God's Word says, "Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God."

How would our lives be different if we truly understood that our every appointment, plan, event, and hope for the future, even my desire to plan something in the future must first measured up to, hidden, and filtered through Jesus - and if it is not in accordance with His guidelines and priorities I would immediately declared it note worth addressing in my life.

My life is hidden in Christ now in God - When Christ looks at me He doesn't see "me", he sees me intermixed and made one with Jesus (a new man - the two made one in Jesus).

In the practical juggling of my WHOLE life I am not smart enough to manage "me" on my own. I require a written Word of God and a loving Savior to help me remember anything and to stay on track. In a very real way I am absolutely lost in anything happens to my relationship with Him.

Is your life hidden with Christ today?

Not just will your answer effect what you put on your schedule and the plans for your life, it will determine where you spend eternity - every second for the next millions upon millions of years forever.

If you aren't sure if you are right with God check out the "how to be saved tab" and make sure you are right with Him. Why not stop what you are doing and put on your calendar to set aside 30 minutes to read the section with God's Scriptures, set your mind on things above, and then prayerfully pray and listen to God's Holy Spirit and be right with Him today.

This is worth making time for.

As always you can email me any time at Mark.Thielenhaus@usw.SalvationArmy.org if you have questions or want someone to pray for you.

Blessings...

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