“For what credit is there if, when
you sin (hit your thumb with a hammer) and are harshly treated, you endure it
with patience? But if when you do what
is right and suffer for it you patiently endure it, this finds favor with God” (I Peter 2:20). “Be angry, and yet do not
sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and do not give the devil an
opportunity.” (Eph. 2:26-27).
Hey gang, I
have learned, in the past two months, that these two verses go together. I have also learned what the person who
coined the saying, “if it works, do not fix it”, meant. I have also learned that I do not have the
slightest clue what to do, when one of the weird screens that I have never seen
before, comes up on the computer; one that has no connection with what I am
trying to do!
If it does
not disappear when I reboot, I am dead in the water until I can call my
friendly computer guru or find a six or seven year old lad or lassie who knows
far more about such things than I will ever know.
Our computer
internet and phone provider recently merged with another company and we were
advised that we must upgrade our equipment to gain all the wondrous advantages
the new company was offering and the carrot was it would cost less money per
month and make it much more convenient.
My question to
the upgrade advocate – how much pain and agony is attached to getting all the
bugs worked out and until my level of understanding is acclimated to using the
new system? O, no worry! This is a tested and proven, bug- free
mechanism that even a 78 year old, that does not understand the “For Dummy’s
books’, can become proficient within minutes.
After
several weeks and more than twenty hours of listening to a multitude of so
called technicians, my bride packed up the entire system and went back to place
it was purchased and announced I do not leave here until this thing is doing
what you said it would do or we go back to the old system.
Okay, what
does that have to do with the Scripture of the day? First I thought I had my anger totally under
control and could handle about any circumstance. Wrong!
I wanted to throw the computer down the basement stairs. I also learned that my patience was not as
secure as I thought it was. Perhaps that
is what this whole trip through the wilderness was all about. I must confess I did indeed go to bed very
anger some nights and I must admit that my patience was a best – tarnished!
Soooo, my
young friends, keep in mind that the devil waits for his chance to set your
patience- control on tilt and to build a fire in your anger controls. But I also learned that if I take a moment or
two and say, “Okay God, If you can’t handle this we are both in trouble”, it
helps. He has never failed. The computer is working fine and my anger has
gone underground again waiting for another opportunity to destroy my patience.
Blessings,
Gramps
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