As I alluded to last week on
social media, I’ve done a revamp of my blog. Tweaking still needed, but the important
things are finished. When I begin a process like that, problems I hadn’t even
dreamed of inevitably happen. It feels like the unknowns circle me like
vultures.
To that point, I had almost
finished the updates but was having trouble with one element working. Without
it, all the other work I’d done was useless. I tried various approaches to fix
the problem all with no resolution. There’s not much IT support in these
situations, and when I looked online, none of the answers seemed to work for
me.
I think I must have spent hours
trying over a dozen times to solve the issue.
Finally, I bowed my head, and
prayed. “Lord, you know I needed to do this, and now I’m stuck. Please help me.”
I’ll pause here and tell you that
later when I told Jerry this story. He said, “So, you stopped and prayed, ‘Lord
do you know anything about computers?’”
We both laughed at the absurdity
of that statement, but that’s exactly what I’d done. I’d acted like God didn’t
have the ability to help me. It was after I’d tried everything else, I prayed.
And I’m guessing I’m not the only one who sometimes follows this pattern. Why,
oh, why, oh, why, do we not pray first thing about our problems but wait until we’re
fraying at the ends to ask? Why do we insist on doing a task in our strength
which leads to failure rather than relying on God’s strength in us to accomplish
the job?
Going on with the story—after I’d prayed, I looked up and my eyes fell on a tiny little icon I hadn’t noticed before. Could it really be that
simple? I clicked on the icon and voila, everything worked.
I was so
glad and yet at the same time frustrated with myself at my “do it myself” attitude.
I could have saved so much aggravation by praying earlier, but stubbornness
caused me to wait.
So, hear I
am again, hoping to avoid this in the future by praying right out of the gate.
Turns out,
God knows lots about computers.
“I can do
all things through Christ who strengthens me” (Philippians 4:13).
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