I know that God has begun to do good things in you. And I am sure that he will continue to work in you. Then, on the day when Jesus Christ returns, his work in you will be finished. Philippians 1:6 EASY
Last night a Memorial was given for a member of the AA Group that meets at the church who died from injuries after being hit by a car. He was an artist, so they made a slide show with music to show during the service. I told them if they sent it to me I could show it through my computer on the screen. Or so I thought, after all we used it every Sunday and at other funeral services.
Now, I have to tell you the Lord has been having me focus on learning to listening to Him better. So she sent me the slide show, but it was created in Google and my computer runs on Microsoft, so it wouldn’t work in the video program I have for church. Finally figured out how we could run it through my computer, but then I couldn’t play the songs. So I prayed and God reminded me I could used my phone for the music. Wonderful, we got it working. Well, that was until I forgot the attachment for my phone to hook up to the sound system.
Well at least I was early, I’ll stop at Staples and pick one up, always good to have one to leave at church. But they didn’t have one, neither did T-Mobile or AT&T. It was getting late so went to church praying on the way that it would work through the microphone. But that was the least of our problems. Now we couldn’t get the pictures up on the screen. Praise God a young person who grew up on computers! She got the slide show into Power Point, terrific and we can also do the music through the sound system. Oh, wait! Now we can’t get the slide show to transition the pictures and on and on it went. We finally got it going, but the slide show turned into a side show!
Everyone was very kind and said it helped lighten the atmosphere and would have been what he wanted, people laughing. But as I sat in the car afterwards I thought, it probably would have helped if I would have just asked Abba to tell me what to do. It made me sad, that even when I did pray it was out of panic and anger at myself for thinking it would be easy instead of checking it out. Then I heard a peaceful voice say “You learned from this and I will use it to help you ask me first for anything you need help with. After all, I’m still working in you and I won’t stop. I’m not disappointed in you, so don’t be disappointed in yourself. I love you!”
So that’s why I wrote this devotion today, to maybe help someone else who feels they’ve failed and are a disappointment to someone and God. Remember, in Romans 8:28 He promised to make all things work out for good. So if you’re not seeing good or what you want to see, just say to yourself, “He’s not done with me yet, the best is yet to come and it’s going to be so very good!”
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