Bad Time For A Dead Battery

Bad Time for a Dead Battery

Have you ever been in a car when the engine won’t start? The key turns—click, click, click—nothing. Usually that happens at the worst time. Late for school. Late for work. In a hurry to get somewhere.

Many times when a car won’t start, the problem is a dead battery. It’s a common issue with an easy solution. To make a dead battery come to life, all you have to do is connect it to a battery with plenty of power. Maybe you’ve seen two cars with their hoods up attached by jumper cables. By linking the batteries together, the weak battery gets the juice it needs to fire up the engine.

King David once had a dead battery of sorts. After God’s prophet confronted David for serious sins and enduring the death of his baby boy, David realized his heart had not only drifted away from God . . . it was on empty. No spark. No energy. No power.

So what did he do? He asked God to “jump-start” his heart. David repented, asked for forgiveness, and acknowledged his bad choices (see Psalm 51). He didn’t sugarcoat things with God. He honestly admitted his faults. But he didn’t just beat himself up. He realized God had an everlasting battery that could recharge him. So David humbly asked God to do for him what he couldn’t do for himself.

• Purify me.
• Wash me.
• Give me back my joy again.
• Let me rejoice.
• Remove my guilt.
• Create in me a clean heart.
• Renew a loyal spirit within me.
• Restore to me the joy of your salvation.

God answered David’s humble, honest prayer. God reignited David’s spark, and the battery of David’s heart became so strong that he is remembered as a man after God’s own heart. Now that’s real cranking power.

Daddy-Daughter Time

Ask your dad to pop the hood and show you where the battery is in your family car. Ask him to explain how the battery is vital to the car, to the computer in the car, to the radio, etc. If neither of you is familiar with how a car battery works, go online and search for videos to learn about it together.

Are there things sapping your energy? Is your battery empty? Pray together a prayer similar to David’s. Ask God to show you what you need to recharge with his help. He’ll do it!

What’s The Word?

Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and make me willing to obey you.   Psalm 51:12