What are you Plugged into?

For the remainder of this year, I will be working on letting my phone charge completely before I take it off of the charger. I’m notorious for leaving out of the house with half a battery on my phone and expecting it to last for the entire 10 hour shift at work. This usually turns into a scramble at work to find someone who has a charger, so I can get a little juice for the trip home. My wife on the other hand, charges her phone overnight, so that in the morning she has a full battery; that would be too much like right for me because that would take out some of the chaos and scrambling. My logic for not keeping the phone on the charger is that while it’s plugged in, I’m restricted. I can utilize my phone for as long as I want but the cord only stretches so far.

As I thought about my dilemma with the phone, I couldn’t help but to see the correlation between the phone and life. Some of us choose to plug ourselves into sources that don’t and won’t recharge our battery. We plug into a career, believing that it will be able to keep us charged, until the company starts to downsize and one of the positions that’s phasing out is ours. We plug into another person, only to learn that other people aren’t a good power source because they get drained and need to recharge their battery also. Some of us plug into God for a small fraction of time, and wonder why our success over an addiction, attitude or temptation is short lasted.  

The trick is to learn how to stay plugged into your source. You can have the victory over temptations, habits and attitudes BUT it will cost you! You’re probably wondering, “What will the cost be?” The cost for you to stay plugged into your source will be the same as the cost for me to be able to utilize my phone for as long as I want; the cost is, Being Restricted. You won’t be able to stay plugged into your source and freelance wherever you want. It boils down to, how bad do you need to stay plugged in? How much is your victory of depression worth to you? How much is your freedom over destructive appetites worth to you?