PAPER JAM
Why does a printer always get jammed?
How can God paint a new picture and do a new work in you if your printer keeps getting jammed?
I researched why printers get jammed most of the time and it’s because of the MISALIGNMENT OF THE PAPER. Bingo. Many times when we get jammed in life it’s because we are not in alignment with God.
Many times the printer gets jammed because there is too much paper in the tray. What’s in your tray? What is going in your body? I hear God saying you need to consume less of the world because that will get you jammed. You need to get rid of those friends because that is what keeps getting you jammed. You need to cut off that sin because that is what’s getting you jammed.
God’s will for us is not to be jammed but if we already have too much on our tray how can God print a new picture in our lives. Many times we settle for black and white while God wants to print our lives in color! He wants to give us a new life! He wants to create a new drawing and picture. He wants to print a new blueprint!
We need to cut off everything that is holding us back, anything that is heavy, anything that is stopping us from moving forward. Anything that is not in alignment with God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit.
How do we get in alignment? We get in alignment by reading the word (Bible), prayer, worship and fellowship with other believers. And this is an everyday consistent basis. In no time you will see yourself becoming in alignment.
But many times we get jammed if we are in alignment with God because we aren’t doing the things he is telling us to do. Whether it's to start a business, launch’s project, write a book, create a song, go back to school, clean up our house or maybe all of those. If you have too many God to do’s in your tray you will be jammed because you need to be obedient and just take action on at least one thing God has been telling you to do. Remember the picture gets printed one by one and many times we try to do all things at once and then we get jammed.
One by one , one step at a time. One seed at a time, one person at a time, one conversation at a time. One prayer at a time. This is how we become the person God wants us to be.
But before God prints the perfect picture for us. We have to pull out the bad sheets first. Sometimes it’s only one bad sheet and many times it’s a lot of bad sheets. In order to move forward and for your printer to run smoothly there can be any bad sheets. Do you have any bad sheets in your life? I urge you to pull it out now and do not delay. This is the day the lord has made and he wants us to live it today. Not yesterday not tomorrow but today.
In order to take out the sheets we have to turn off the computer and sometimes give it 10 minutes to rest. That’s God telling us many times we have to unplug and turn off first in order to hear from God. We have to ask him what is the direction he wants to take us. Where does he want us to go? Who or what does he want us to get rid of?
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.”
Hebrews 12:1-2 NIV
As it says here we have to throw off anything that hinders us from God’s purpose and that jams or entangles us.
How can we run our race if we have so much dead weight on us? I have a feeling sometimes it’s not even a physcial thing or a friendship it’s probably unforgiveness or someone you need to say sorry to. If we hold this in, our hear will get hard, but we need to act immediately because if not that feeling will get worse everyday.
As it says later in that passage:
“Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord. See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.”
Hebrews 12:14-15 NIV
Growing bitter against someone will cause a major jam in our lives. There is no way to print a beautiful picture in color if we have any root of bitterness. Our root determines our fruit and if our root is bitter then so will our furit. And I don’t like bananas to be bitter. I want it to be sweet. Is there someone we need to be sweet to today? I hear you saying oh but I need to act hard and keep up this wall so I look a certain way. I hear you and I understand you but Jesus said turn the other check and bless and pray for our enemies. It even says in the Bible feed our enemeis! Now I’m not saying to not have boundaries to not cut people off when you need to but there are situations where most of the time if we step up first in forgives the whole relationship can be healed.
Let’s make sure to consecrate ourselves and not step into the darkness with any immorality, filth, sexual immorality etc. Let’s stay Godlly
If your system is jammed you can’t get reception to see what God wants to do next. You need to be clear.
“Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.”
Colossians 3:5-8 NIV
Let’s get unjammed.
KB