Good Morning All,
It was after my second class at the
seminary, I started getting this email from their help desk asking me if I
wanted to change my password. Now I am
not really good at remembering passwords and the one I had was kind of clever
and it was easy to remember. I kept
telling it; no, I don’t want to change my password. Then one day I went to log onto the site to
do my lessons and I couldn’t get on. My
password had expired. My access to the
website was denied. What a headache that
turned out to be. I had to call down to
their help desk (which had scheduled hours that were as strange as could be)
try to talk to the head tech guy (his flunkies were not authorized to do
anything) and get a new password setup.
I had to have my student ID number (my what?) and some other
identification to get a new password so that I could have access to the
website. It was a couple of days
project. Now when it asks if I want to
change my password, I answer, “Yes I do!!”
Losing access to some of your websites,
like school or the bank or your marketing adviser can really cause a
panic. You keep typing in the password
and the computer keeps blinking “access denied” over and over. You feel the loss of control and the loss of
power. You feel that tremendous feeling
of total frustration. “Access denied”
for some has become a way of life. Even
though it isn’t blinking at us when it occurs, we can feel our access denied
when friends and loved ones reject us or turn away from us. “Access denied” is a painful way to live.
Because of our sinful nature, we received
an “access denied” from God as well. We
turned our backs to God and because of our sins our access to God was denied. Even as God kept calling us back, our access
was denied because of sin. In order for
our access to be restored, a major undertaking must occur. God sent His Son Jesus to pay the price for
our sins, to redeem us from sin and the power of the devil. Because of His love we have the gift, the
gift of our access restored. Because of
His grace we can come to the Father in prayer, standing before Him as
righteous. Jesus has given us His
righteousness that by faith in Him we have total access to God.
With that access, we can rejoice in
hope. We can rejoice in the certainty of
our salvation. We can rejoice in the
certainty of life eternal with Him. And
the best part is that our access is never denied. Even if we fail to use it properly or in a
timely manner, when we turn in faith to Him, we have total access to the
blessings of the Father. With God we
will never have to see “access denied.”
We have been given, by faith, total access to God through Christ Jesus.
Father
in heaven, we often fail to use our access to you as we should. We look to ourselves as our way out our hope
for greater things. Forgive us as we
sin. Give us that due confidence that we
may boldly and assuredly come to you with all of our prayers and petitions, all
of our wants and needs, trusting in You to grant those things which are
according to your will. In Jesus’ name
we pray. Amen
God’s
Peace,
Pastor
Bret
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