Hyperventilating
Faith expects from God what is beyond
all expectation. Andrew Murray
Yesterday was a Monday to top all Monday’s. If you depend on technology at all, you will
understand the story I am getting ready to tell.
My computer at work crashed yesterday. I’m not talking about one of those “My
computer has a virus that can be fixed with a computer antibiotic.” It crashed to the point that in computer
language they call it “No boot device found” or in other words “No hope of
getting your info back”. Our system is
backed up every day except for my personal folders and my contacts. I wasn’t as concerned until they said I lost
all my contacts. I needed a brown paper
sack to breathe into because I thought I was hyperventilating. You know what I am talking about. You breathe so fast and take in so much
oxygen that your brain can’t handle all that fresh air.
One of our IT guys came to give me the bad
news. “We aren’t able to retrieve any of
your lost information and the only other thing we could do is remove the hard
drive and see if we could get anything off of it. Oh, and by the way we don’t have a “clean
room” to do this in so we will need to contact an outside company with a clean
room who could try to retrieve your information and by the way it will cost
$250 to just to look at the hard drive and then approximately $3000 to try to
remove information from it in a “clean room”.
About this time I start hyperventilating
again. All of my devotional contacts are
gone. Then I started thinking about work
and everything that I manage for one of my bosses including contacts, account
numbers for various investment accounts, individuals that he asked me to add to
my contact list for the past two years are gone, the list is so long I needed a
paper sack quick. Every name in my drop
down list that I use to email anyone was gone.
So every time I needed to send an email I had to look the person’s name
up or pull up an old email to get their email address.
What I noticed was that in the middle of this
so called “crisis” I didn’t immediately pray.
I sent a text to my sister and said, “my hard drive crashed and I need
prayer”. It was sort of comical, if
anything about this scenario can be called comical. She text me back and said “Did
you pray about it. God fixed my shower
door and my disposal.” I started
laughing. Then I thought about when my
windshield wipers stopped working after I had a blowout and then I prayed and
they started working again.
I then asked myself, “Why didn’t I
immediately turn to God.” I have two
words panic and hyperventilation, with some lack of faith thrown in. It is often hard for me to understand and
wrap my arms around God’s absolute greatness.
Too many times I look at things from my perspective instead of His
perspective. I can read about the
amazing things God did in the Bible yet I have a hard time applying the same
thing to my life. If my faith isn’t
strong enough to withstand a computer crash, I need to spend more time with God
and the stories of the great things he did for people just like me who lacked
faith.
Prayer for the Day:
Heavenly Father, I am sorry I didn’t turn to You immediately. If you are my rock and fortress during times
of trouble, You should be the first One I think of during any crisis big or
small. Help me to keep the troubles of
this earthly life in perspective and understand that You can do anything even
fix my computer. But, even if it doesn’t
get fixed You still are there for me and You intend it all for my good.
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