Seeing God
It's my belief that God is everywhere. I think if we look intently enough we can see God's hand in a number of things. Now you may say "sure, God is omnipresent, I get that" but do we really? I hear missionaries say things like "...taking God to the people" but they aren't taking God anywhere are they? If they can take God somewhere, he must be a small god to be moved around by humans like that. I really see their role as helping people to open their eyes and see their circumstances differently. God is everywhere with us and we need to just look to see him.
I saw God's hand very early this morning in a computer. Yeah, I know, it's kind of nerdy, but hang in here with me. One of the computers for RCC broke. For some reason, all of the laptops purchased at this one point of time have been breaking on me and of course they are out of warranty. Well, this one is uber important. It contains all the financial information for the church...AND the nice people where we purchased our laptops from gave some garbage information on how to back it up so the last time it was backed up was 22 May 2006...yep over a year ago. So I picked up the computer when it went down and began messing with it. You see, the password for the financial information wasn't taking. The rest of the computer seemed to work properly, but it wouldn't let us in to the financial information. Putzing around with it got me nowhere and a couple other anomalous items came up. Things just weren't quite right. Now it does run anti-virus software. I enjoy Kim Komando's radio show and took some of her advise using Grisoft software's AVG and I made sure it was up to date and checked the machine...no problem. Uh oh, now we're really in trouble there are no viruses on it. So I pull out the hard drive (all the information) and put it into a different computer...still can't get to anything.
Just as an aside here. If you are reading this and don't understand all the steps, that's okay. These are the things we computer nerds do to fix your computer. There's really no secret handshake or some "fix" button we press. I realize it seems almost like magic when we get your computer to do something you have been trying to get it to do for the last few hours but there really is nothing more to it than a little knowledge and a lack of fear of the consequences.
So there is no magic button for me to press and we're in trouble, so I use the OS to check the hard drive for problems. That requires a reboot, it checks, fixes something and it works!!! That is when I saw God's hand. You see, it is now very early in the morning, and I am really stressing out that the information is lost. The disk check usually runs automatically when something may be wrong, so it is unusual for a scheduled check to fix anything, but sure enough it worked. God is everywhere and we just need to look for Him to find Him.
Keep an eye open, He may just be in your computer the next time it doesn't do what you want!
I saw God's hand very early this morning in a computer. Yeah, I know, it's kind of nerdy, but hang in here with me. One of the computers for RCC broke. For some reason, all of the laptops purchased at this one point of time have been breaking on me and of course they are out of warranty. Well, this one is uber important. It contains all the financial information for the church...AND the nice people where we purchased our laptops from gave some garbage information on how to back it up so the last time it was backed up was 22 May 2006...yep over a year ago. So I picked up the computer when it went down and began messing with it. You see, the password for the financial information wasn't taking. The rest of the computer seemed to work properly, but it wouldn't let us in to the financial information. Putzing around with it got me nowhere and a couple other anomalous items came up. Things just weren't quite right. Now it does run anti-virus software. I enjoy Kim Komando's radio show and took some of her advise using Grisoft software's AVG and I made sure it was up to date and checked the machine...no problem. Uh oh, now we're really in trouble there are no viruses on it. So I pull out the hard drive (all the information) and put it into a different computer...still can't get to anything.
Just as an aside here. If you are reading this and don't understand all the steps, that's okay. These are the things we computer nerds do to fix your computer. There's really no secret handshake or some "fix" button we press. I realize it seems almost like magic when we get your computer to do something you have been trying to get it to do for the last few hours but there really is nothing more to it than a little knowledge and a lack of fear of the consequences.
So there is no magic button for me to press and we're in trouble, so I use the OS to check the hard drive for problems. That requires a reboot, it checks, fixes something and it works!!! That is when I saw God's hand. You see, it is now very early in the morning, and I am really stressing out that the information is lost. The disk check usually runs automatically when something may be wrong, so it is unusual for a scheduled check to fix anything, but sure enough it worked. God is everywhere and we just need to look for Him to find Him.
Keep an eye open, He may just be in your computer the next time it doesn't do what you want!
posted by Pastor Tom at 9:26 AM
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