"Saved"

“Saved”

Who knew that one of the most important functions on Microsoft Office is actually a representation of the Gospel?

As I’m working on numerous assignments for school, and actually as I’m writing this very blog, I look in the top-left corner of my screen and I see it: the Save icon.  The little blue floppy disk that you click when you need to come back and work on a document later, or for other common purposes, is a good example of the Gospel.

What?!

I know, I know… It sounds weird at first.  Think about it though.  When we think of people as being “saved,” what does it mean?  These people have been changed by God.  They have confessed with their mouths that Jesus is Lord as well as believed in their hearts.  This is awesome.  As far as their life, we know that they will die physically, but spiritually they will spend eternity in the presence of God.  It’s amazing.

Now for the analytic part.

The Save button takes the work you’re doing at the moment and puts it into your computer, never to be taken out unless you so choose.  If you wanted, it could stay there forever.  And any time you continue to work on something, you click Save once it’s done and next time you come back you’ll be able to start again from where you left off, continuing to work from there.  Often times, people go ahead and Save their documents when they can so that it won’t be deleted by some accident or for whatever reason.

Christ is our Save button.  We come to Him because we don’t want to get “deleted.”  We want to spend eternity with Him, and when He saves us that is what happens.  Now, just like a saved document, as we go on with our lives (to continue the metaphor, the next time we work on the document,) we can remember that we have the opportunity to start from a new beginning, revise what we had before.  If we have already Christians and have been saved by the grace of God, we can remember that by humbly praying to God and asking for forgiveness He will forgive us.  He will revise our document, helping us to follow His will.  And then, any time after we’re saved, we can remember that Christ has forgiven us and will continue to do so.  This is like the Save button, and as we write we know that it’s there in case we need to click it and Save our document, ensuring that we don’t get deleted, and helping us to remember our progress in finishing our work.

This may seem like a stretch to some, and some may take this the wrong way and say “You can’t get saved multiple times!”  When I say that the Save button’s always there for us to push, it’s like the blessed assurance we receive from Jesus Christ in knowing that He’s already forgiven us and will continue to do so.

Think about this the next time you’re working on a document, and turns your eyes upon Jesus and say, “Thanks for saving me.  Now I won’t get deleted.”

Your Brother in Christ,

Phillip