God/Heater Illustration.

Seeing as though it is a Sunday I thought I would share with you a true illustration I used in a recent sermon of mine.

“Bad Illustration time. I realise that it is not a good illustration to compare God to a Heater, but I hope it gets the message across that we need to make the connection to God before we can get His benefits. Anyway, please bear with this illustration, as bad as it is.

God is a bit like the central heating of our house, with which we had a minor problem with recently. The central Heating System of our house is always there but it is not automatic. If we want its full and proper benefits, we have to first switch it on. When we do, we then can choose whether just to heat a few rooms or the whole house by shutting some rooms off. The experts tell us that we are not supposed to do this, as it is not good for the whole system, yet sometimes we do it anyway, don’t we?

Then, if conditions suit us, we often just don’t bother with the heater at all, do we? Then sometimes after a long period of inactivity, when we decide that we finally want heat and we try to switch it on again at the flick of a switch, we find that the pilot has gone out. And often, like a couple of weeks back in our cold snap, it was with some great difficulty that we have to go through to relight it again and get everything up and running like it should, all because we had not been maintaining the system.

Any of this beginning to sound like how we treat God? We try and restrict Him to only certain parts of our lives and even then call on Him only when we want His help or benefits, yet fail to keep the system operating and then wonder why we have so much trouble reigniting with God again when we try!

There are many wonderful and mighty promises in the Bible, particularly in Isaiah 9; 6 –7, but they are also promises that only God can bring about for as Isaiah 9:7 says,” The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this. Thus we must remain ever connected to Him, don’t we?”

Yes it is the Lord of Hosts, (God almighty - Emmanuel - Jesus Christ), that will give you all you need for eternal life and peace in this one. All we can do is connect and stay connected to this power through our faith and walk with Christ as laid out in His word the Bible. Will you do that? As shown repeatedly, God has done all that needs to be done, and now all we have to do is to walk in that Connection. Will you? Will you now? If so turn to God in Prayer now.”

Hopefully this will give you pause for thought on this Lord’s Day. If not, hold out for tomorrow’s musings instead. Walter