Providence - God Provides
The American Heritage Dictionary defines Providence (definition 3) as The care, guardianship, and control exercisec by a deity; divine direction. Definition 4 says simply, God.
God does provide. God knows the future and guides us to it, if we will only listen.
The weekend of April 28, my wife asked me to 'whack and re-load' her Windows '98 laptop. 'Whack and re-load' means to completely erase everything from the hard drive and put everything back on. With early versions of Windows, it's actually routine maintenance to do this periodically. The reason? The machine was running slowly. So, the first step was to back up all the data. I painstakingly searched for every bit of something that she may want to keep, and put it in a safe place. I then 'whacked and re-loaded' the laptop.
A week later, the hard disk died. No way to recover the data - it was gone. But, apparently because of God's prompting, all the data was backed up. All I had to do was pop a new hard drive in and restore the data I'd backed up on April 28.
See, God knows what He's doing, even if we don't understand it. To many people, the prospect of backing up the data would have been more than they could handle. Me, being a tech-support kinda guy, it was part of the routine maintenance. When He prompted us to re-load the computer, He knew that backing up the data would have been part of the procedure. That way, when the drive died a week later, everything was there.
Now, I was really upset about the drive dying. Here, God gives us stuff (a friend of mine had a bunch of 'junk computer equipment' he wanted to get rid of so it's filling up my garage!), then He takes it away. Why does He do that? Well, before He took it away (time did that, not God), He made sure we didn't lose anything except the physical asset of the drive. All the intellectual property (the projects my wife is working on) survived.
Not to mention the fact that I couldn't get the computer to recognize the new drive for a day or so. Well, if I'd pushed the drive all the way in so it made contact with the connector... DOH!
Heavenly Father, sometimes you bless us in ways we never see. Sometimes you guide us to do things that don't even register - they look so routine. But behind every little thing You do, there is a larger reason. Help us, Father, to see what you are doing in our lives. Help us to be thankful for even the smallest gifts You give us.
In Jesus' Holy Name we pray,
Amen.
God does provide. God knows the future and guides us to it, if we will only listen.
The weekend of April 28, my wife asked me to 'whack and re-load' her Windows '98 laptop. 'Whack and re-load' means to completely erase everything from the hard drive and put everything back on. With early versions of Windows, it's actually routine maintenance to do this periodically. The reason? The machine was running slowly. So, the first step was to back up all the data. I painstakingly searched for every bit of something that she may want to keep, and put it in a safe place. I then 'whacked and re-loaded' the laptop.
A week later, the hard disk died. No way to recover the data - it was gone. But, apparently because of God's prompting, all the data was backed up. All I had to do was pop a new hard drive in and restore the data I'd backed up on April 28.
See, God knows what He's doing, even if we don't understand it. To many people, the prospect of backing up the data would have been more than they could handle. Me, being a tech-support kinda guy, it was part of the routine maintenance. When He prompted us to re-load the computer, He knew that backing up the data would have been part of the procedure. That way, when the drive died a week later, everything was there.
Now, I was really upset about the drive dying. Here, God gives us stuff (a friend of mine had a bunch of 'junk computer equipment' he wanted to get rid of so it's filling up my garage!), then He takes it away. Why does He do that? Well, before He took it away (time did that, not God), He made sure we didn't lose anything except the physical asset of the drive. All the intellectual property (the projects my wife is working on) survived.
Not to mention the fact that I couldn't get the computer to recognize the new drive for a day or so. Well, if I'd pushed the drive all the way in so it made contact with the connector... DOH!
Prayer
Heavenly Father, sometimes you bless us in ways we never see. Sometimes you guide us to do things that don't even register - they look so routine. But behind every little thing You do, there is a larger reason. Help us, Father, to see what you are doing in our lives. Help us to be thankful for even the smallest gifts You give us.
In Jesus' Holy Name we pray,
Amen.
posted by ClayMan at 5:18 AM
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