10/31/2024
I was in church when I thought about this!
Imagine your spiritual life as a car battery. Going to church is like getting a fresh charge — you’re filled, uplifted, and ready to go. But for your car battery to stay charged and keep running, it needs a good alternator. The alternator keeps the battery powered even after that initial boost.
If the alternator is faulty, the battery drains quickly and needs constant jumpstarts just to keep going. In the same way, if our faith doesn’t have “deep roots” — if we don’t have the right spiritual grounding and preparation — everything we receive in church fades soon after we leave. Like birds snatching seeds from the soil, distractions, doubts, and temptations come in and take away what was planted before it has a chance to grow.
To keep our faith alive, we need to fix our “alternator” — our heart. We need to prepare it to truly receive and hold onto what’s planted, so we’re not just relying on quick spiritual boosts but are instead building a faith that sustains us through the week, preventing those “birds” (or distractions) from stealing it.
