Glimpses of God

After my last computer rant, ending with "it's a good thing our God is one of resurrection"...I have to post an update saying that my computer is officially resurrected, anti-virused, and spy-swept now...yay! :)

Yesterday's resurrection was just one more glimpse in a week of random God-glimpses. Probably from looking at our "glimpse list," it wouldn't seem like we see God all that much...but I want to share it anyway. This will at least give great insight into how we think (or at least, Cindy seems to think this way naturally...for the rest of us, it might be a learned thing!)... :)

Ways God Has Taught Us This Week:
- Snow shoveling: After Cindy went out to shovel the church parking lot this week, God melted all the snow in the parking lot...except for the pile she'd made shoveling. A good reminder of what happens when we try to solve problems on our own, rather than let God handle them His way...
- Grasshopper legs: Did you know that apparently grasshopper legs hop around for a good 24 hours after they are disconnected from the grasshopper's body? Gross, right?! Anyway, it's a good illustration of how Christians may hop around for awhile--or look alive on the outside, but truly be disconnected to the Head (Jesus). A good reminder of how little life we have in and of ourselves...
- A computer's death: A system restore ended up being the answer to my computer problems...but even though I've moved time backwards somehow for my computer, I haven't actually fixed any of the little quirks, the slowness, and the random scary stupid things that it does that makes it seem like there are a thousand viruses in it that simply aren't showing up on my anti-virus runs... As I was running virus scans yesterday, I kept thinking about our sinful human nature, and how it is so much a part of us that just "turning back time" doesn't help. So many times we say, "If only I'd made the right decision!" or "If only I'd done it this way rather than that way...!" Let's face it: we don't need just a "system restore"...we need to be made completely new! Praise God that He's made a Way...

There are more lessons...I just don't remember them all! People here ask me if I feel God, and sometimes I think of these kinds of "lessons" and I chuckle...yes, I feel/hear/see God all the time, just maybe not at all like one might interact with a regular person...