Some time back a person I happen to know had a hard drive failure on his laptop and he was worried if all the data stored on the laptop would be destroyed. He had saved all his research, study and his work on his laptop. It would be years of hard labor lost if he lost the data on his hard drive.
They actually have a backup system at their office. Everyday this software automatically backs up all the data on their computers and saves it on a server and this can be retrieved at any time. Now there are some who use this, though actually everyone has been provided with access to this software. But unfortunately most don’t. And this person, whose hard drive had just crashed, also did have access to this software but, no, he hadn’t used it and had no backup whatsoever, of all his data.
I was just rejoicing when God spoke to me a beautiful truth through this. No matter what. NO matter what. For a god’s child, there is nothing to lose. Things may fail, crash and we could be in the middle of a big soup but yet we are not left without hope, when our plans fail, because we have a great backup, who is the great God himself. Which means we are totally totally safe.
It doesn’t make any difference to the software or to the server. It’s the person who believes he needs the server, who benefits in the end.
I’m not advising you to go ahead and make your own plans, keeping God out of it and just as a backup. Instead of going through a storm and then getting on track, it’s better to depend completely on God always and have his peace and joy as he leads us into his plan and into his blessings.
The point I’m trying to drive home is that – For a God’s child, nothing is the end of the world because God is more than a human made server, and can be banked on no matter how hopeless and helpless a situation is. For those of us who just don’t want to depend on God, we are loosing out on Oh So Much!!!
We have an all powerful God who could do anything and everything but yet we don’t rely on him and choose to do things on our strength. Or probably we make our own plans and we do pray about it but there isn’t total dependence on God. If there is total dependence on God, why do we get upset and crib or start worrying, when our plan or things go bad? That’s because our trust was a lot more on the plan than on God.
Psalm 37:5:5Commit your way to the Lord [roll and repose each care of your load on Him]; trust (lean on, rely on, and be confident) also in Him and He will bring it to pass.
Proverbs 3:5:5Lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight or understanding.
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