Connected with Jesus

I was recently faced with the fact that I was going to have to upgrade my computer.  My old computer refused to support the latest technology out there. 

I found myself upgrading my USB card to support 2.0 so that my webcam could function properly.   I found out by trial and error that if I don't push the card into place so that it is properly connected with the computer the computer will not recognize the newly installed hardware.  As Christians our sin (big or small) breaks our connection with God.  

Your iniquities have separated you from your God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So that He will not hear.  Isaiah 59:2  


All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Romans 3:23
But God shows His love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.  Rom 5:8 


When we loose our connection with God our soul dies.  


If you warn the wicked, and he or she does not turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity. Ezekiel 3:19 
The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself. 
Ezekiel 18:20

When we loose our connection to God we are no longer recognized. 

Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets.’  But He will say, ‘I tell you I do not know you, where you are from. Depart from Me, all you workers of iniquity.’  There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and yourselves thrust out.  Luke 13:26-28  

For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.  2  Cor 11:13 

Only God can repair that tiny connection and make it whole again. He does this through our act of repentance. 
Come, and let us return to the LORD; For He has torn, but He will heal us; He has stricken, but He will bind us up. Hosea 6:1
Now, therefore,” says the LORD, “Turn to Me with all your heart, With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.”  Joel 2:12

If you study the life of Jesus he is constantly reaching out and attempting to restore that connection and bond with mankind. He broke the mold of the “Religious” and became a “Friend” of sinners.

When Jesus heard it, He said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.” Mark 2:17               


You were once alienated and hostile in mind because of your evil actions. But now He has reconciled you by His physical body through His death, to present you holy, faultless, and blameless before Him ---if indeed you remain grounded and steadfast in the faith, and are not shifted away from the hope of the gospel that you heard.

(Colossians 1:21-23). 


Jesus said , "Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.  If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.  John 15:4-7