It’s unavoidable. In fact, you’ll see all the warning signs.

It’s inevitable. And inescapable.

Your phone battery will die… Or, at the very least, your phone’s battery will slowly weaken over the course of the day. Every day.

Sure, you might have the iPhony iPhone 4s. Or the Samsung Galaxy SII. Or some other really startling phone that makes calls and doubles as a 9.0 megapixel-wielding time machine. But, at some point in the day, you’ll realize you can’t escape the fact that you need to charge your phone.

Unless you genuinely enjoy not texting people, checking emails, looking up sports scores, or playing Angry Birds’ latest update with 33 new levels and some even angrier-looking birds (why are they always so angry?!).

Your phone’s battery will need to get charged. At some point.

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It actually starts getting funny when you see the “battery is getting low” warning on your phone.

Why is it funny? Because people who can’t live without texting every 6.3 seconds begin to limit their texts. Because people who are on level 32 of the latest Angry Birds update (after 2 hours of relentlessness and determination) save their progress so that they can finish up later.

You will STOP what you’re used to doing and what you’re currently doing just so that you can save as much of that remaining battery life as you can.

It’s even funnier how we manage to channel our inner Macgyvers in our DESPERATE scrambles to charge a nearly-dying phone. We’ll ask people around us if they’d be okay letting us borrow their chargers for a few minutes. I even know some weirdos people that’ll strip and re-wire unused cables so that they can use the positive and negative tips of the wires to charge the exposed ends of the phone battery.

It’s even more ridiculous for me. My phone’s USB port doesn’t work. (It’s absolutely not probably my fault.) I can’t charge my phone using the traditional/normal method via a charging cable. I actually have to take out my battery and leave it on an external battery charger for a couple of hours in order to charge up that battery to full power.

How do I compensate for those couple of hours of not having a battery in my phone? Well, I have a second battery. I happen to charge that backup battery overnight, so that when my primary battery inevitably gives out on me during the day, I can swap out for the fully-charged backup. The battery-swapping and phone-restarting takes all of 2 minutes or so.

But those are 2 ridiculously DESPERATE 2 minutes. If I’m in the middle of an important conversation (or if I’m about to beat Angry Birds- FINALLY) and I realize I have to swap out batteries, it’s 2 minutes of systematic, controlled panic. I realize I’ll have to be disconnected for 2 minutes. And that’s not cool. At all.

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We might have different ways of going about charging our phone batteries, but the charging process itself is inevitable. We all have to do it.

We become utterly DESPERATE, because we know that we are LIMITED without our phones. Sure, our phones have the capabilities now to do just about anything at anytime. Sure, our phones seemingly retrieve any bit of information we demand to be retrieved… But, if that battery is kaput, then so is the phone’s functionality.

We are LIMITED once that battery hits zero.

In fact, we are SEVERELY LIMITED if we aren’t connected to the network.

So, what do we do? We find some way to charge our phones.

But do we have this driving, overwhelming, frustrating, all-demanding urgency about how we’re connected to (or not connected to) God?

No matter how strong we think we are, or how good we think we have it, or how well we sing, or how many cool skits we can write and publish on YouTube… Inevitably, as Christians, we are all bound by one thing.

We need God.

We need to be plugged back in (pun absolutely intended).

The methods for “plugging back in” might differ for different people. Some might need a guitar and some mellow worship songs to re-connect. Some might need a flashlight and a Bible to flip through. Some might need a link to a link to a link to another link to a blog that finally inspires them to actually STOP what they’re doing and pray.

But, it’s unavoidable, inevitable, and inescapable. We NEED God.

We can get up on that stage and be worship leader extraordinaires on Sunday, but if we have absolutely no idea why we’re doing it all in the first place… Then, we’re doing it all wrong.

How can we assume that we can go on without praying or spending time in devotion or soaking in the Word and be perfectly fine and functional? How can we assume we never need to re-connect at all?

And I’m not talking about being satisfied in your situation when all you’re doing is sitting down in a nice little circle with your family and praying because your father glares at you and demands you to do so. You aren’t FORCED to charge your phones anymore than you should feel FORCED to communicate and re-connect with your Creator. In fact, we charge our phones simply because we feel the compulsion to do so, because (in all our finite knowledge) we realize that we absolutely NEED to.

Maybe we absolutely NEED to re-connect to God, too.

Not because we’re forced to. But maybe because we’re compelled to.

We are LIMITED once our batteries hit zero.

We give our focus and attention and energy to everyday productivity only to be relegated to being exhausted heaps that crash onto our beds and set the alarms and doze off, ready for another day to start all over again.

But we manage to remember to charge our phones.

Can we manage to remember to be INSPIRED enough to talk to God again?

How desperate are you?