Heavy frost last night, bit of
wind today, but it is gorgeous outside.
There is a haze in the sky, I am not sure where it is coming from, but I
can look out my window as I sit here and type, and see a snow covered Mt.
Hood.
It isn’t real deep snow, yet,
but it is coming – a good sign.
Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the
Lord with
all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own
understanding.
6 In all thy ways
acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy
paths.
I had to update my anti-virus
yesterday and was having a bit of problems – so I contacted the provider on
chat. The person offered to do the work
for me.
To do so I had to allow him into
my computer. I, like probably all of
you, often get these calls from a scammer who tells you your windows program is
in trouble and want you to allow him into your computer so he can ‘fix’ it. While not the same thing, obviously, it is a
matter of having to trust the tech that he will do you no harm.
I allowed him to get into my
computer, remotely, to install the program.
Then I lost him.
I am not the most patient of
people so I once again made contact with the provider who assigned me another
tech. As we are working on the program
the first tech’s chat page pops up asking me what happened, he had lost contact
– the small screen had been hidden behind another.
I had not trusted the process
and, while not doing any real damage, it took longer to get the update done –
and used the time another customer should have had.
Then, in the process, my
computer had to be rebooted. One of the
reasons I was having the tech help me was because I didn’t have the assigned
number for the purchase and I wasn’t sure how I could get the assistance without
it. (I did get that, by the way, it was
in an e-mail verifying I had purchased the update – I just hadn’t waited long
enough, it was probably there within a very few minutes.)
The computer rebooted and the
screen went blank, which I knew it would, still – a bit of anxiety. The computer came back on, I put in my
password so we could work on it – and waited for what seemed hours, but just a
few seconds when the tech was back in control of the computer.
The anti-virus has now been
upgraded and I am good to go.
We do things without considering
the faith we have in our fellow humans.
We ride in airplanes, trusting the pilots, the ground and maintenance
crew – trusting the plane will get off the ground and actually fly – the people
in the tower, trusting that they all are doing their job and we get to our
destination safely.
We drive 65 miles an hour down a
highway, past oncoming traffic doing the same speed just a few inches away and
trust the driver knows what he is doing and that both cars are mechanically
sound and won’t veer into the other lane.
We could not exist in this world
without trusting unknown people, trusting that they are doing what they are
supposed to be doing so our food, our highways, our cars, our homes, our
children, our families and friends, etc. are safe.
We don’t see these people. We know they exist because we are told they
exist. We are told that the process they
use is correct and that our well-being is a primary concern and these people are
doing their best to make sure we are safe.
We don’t know them, we don’t see
them, we often don’t even see the results of their work, we just take it for
granted and often don’t even think about it.
So why, why, do we have problems
trusting in God? There is more evidence
of a Creator who has things in control than there is a person in another country
who I just gave permission to go into my computer and if they wanted to they
could gain enough information to make my life difficult.
Trusting is an act of will – it
may be a passive act, but it is still an act.
We need to have that same trust
we have for people who are, after all, not infallible and make mistakes all the
time – in our God.
He is the only entity that truly
has our best interest at heart.
He is the only entity that knows
our deepest heart, our deepest fears and can overcome them if we just trust
Him.
How often do we try and tell God
how we want something done, because it makes sense to us – because it is what we
want, without consideration for Him.
The disciples were disbelieving
when Jesus was telling them He said He was going away. They were horrified when He was taken into
custody, tried, convicted and then placed on a cross to die.
They were downtrodden and
disheartened when He was removed from the cross and placed in a tomb.
They wanted none of that. Not one of them would have considered Jesus’
death a good thing. They didn’t trust
God – at that time.
Yet, without that death, as a
sacrifice for our sins, we would not have eternal life in Christ. We would not have the assurance of God’s love
and caring for us. We would not have
been adopted into the family of Abraham, becoming a child of God and entitled to
the same inheritance that the Jews were promised once Christ came.
Jesus, the man, had to trust
that His sacrifice would be sufficient for God to accept. He had to trust Him even when He felt God had
forsaken Him.
No matter what happens to us,
good or bad, we must trust God. We must
understand that He is in charge and anything we do, anything we go through that
He is there with us – and in the end something will be accomplished for
Him. It may not be what we thought it
would be or even want it to be, but, it will enrich us and it will show God’s
love and grace to others.
We often times make trusting in
God so hard that we feel we cannot give our all, yet we give it to others every,
single, day.
It is a matter of understanding
that, trusting God is an act of the will, we need to accept God for who He is,
making a conscious effort to trust Him.
After a while, we won’t even
think about it – or at least very much – we will just do it and the results will
be amazing.
Later, Art :-)
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