God At Work!
You just have to love the way God works! He’ll use the normal and make it abnormal, and then He’ll take the natural and make it supernatural! And, He does it all in such a way as to bring attention and glory to Himself.
I witnessed Him doing that just a few weeks ago. It was Saturday evening, and I was sitting at my computer, making final preparations for my sermon the next morning. I have done the same thing throughout my ministry; type up and print out my notes before 9 PM, go to bed, and then get up at 5 AM to look them over, make last minute changes, format, and then print out the final copy. It’s always worked although sometimes just under the wire!
That night, however, held a few surprises. At about 8:00, I could hear a storm moving in. Since my study is on the third floor, I could look out over the water and see it coming. I would see the lightning and then mentally count the seconds until the thunder to see how close it was. It was getting close!
Sharon was downstairs studying her lesson, and she had just said, “Don’t you think you should turn your computer off?” I told her that I was almost finished when it hit! Like a bomb going off or a meteor hitting the house, a bolt of lightning struck the roof. It was deafening. After that, everything went silent except the deluge of rain that began to fall, and the welcomed sound of my computer still running. A quick check revealed that we had been hit pretty hard. The AC, phone, cable boxes… almost everything with a circuit board had been zapped! Yet, the computer, with my sermon notes, slides… a week’s worth of preparation for the next morning were intact! It was a God thing for sure!
Wait! It gets better! When the firemen responded, they went up on the roof and found the charred area where the lightning had struck, but no fire! Of course not. The immediate deluge had put it out! Then, after we were allowed back into our home (two days later!), I discovered that my computer had, indeed, been hit. A charge had come through the phone line and burned out the Ethernet connection to my DSL. That connection, I discovered later, was not a separate card. It was on the motherboard, but “something” prevented the charge from going any further. It was as if the Lord said, “That far and no further!”
I don’t look forward to another lightning strike, and I have become a believer in surge protectors, but I praise the Lord for this experience. I saw God in action as He took care of His preacher as well as what His preacher was to preach. We have a great God, and He is greatly to be praised!
I witnessed Him doing that just a few weeks ago. It was Saturday evening, and I was sitting at my computer, making final preparations for my sermon the next morning. I have done the same thing throughout my ministry; type up and print out my notes before 9 PM, go to bed, and then get up at 5 AM to look them over, make last minute changes, format, and then print out the final copy. It’s always worked although sometimes just under the wire!
That night, however, held a few surprises. At about 8:00, I could hear a storm moving in. Since my study is on the third floor, I could look out over the water and see it coming. I would see the lightning and then mentally count the seconds until the thunder to see how close it was. It was getting close!
Sharon was downstairs studying her lesson, and she had just said, “Don’t you think you should turn your computer off?” I told her that I was almost finished when it hit! Like a bomb going off or a meteor hitting the house, a bolt of lightning struck the roof. It was deafening. After that, everything went silent except the deluge of rain that began to fall, and the welcomed sound of my computer still running. A quick check revealed that we had been hit pretty hard. The AC, phone, cable boxes… almost everything with a circuit board had been zapped! Yet, the computer, with my sermon notes, slides… a week’s worth of preparation for the next morning were intact! It was a God thing for sure!
Wait! It gets better! When the firemen responded, they went up on the roof and found the charred area where the lightning had struck, but no fire! Of course not. The immediate deluge had put it out! Then, after we were allowed back into our home (two days later!), I discovered that my computer had, indeed, been hit. A charge had come through the phone line and burned out the Ethernet connection to my DSL. That connection, I discovered later, was not a separate card. It was on the motherboard, but “something” prevented the charge from going any further. It was as if the Lord said, “That far and no further!”
I don’t look forward to another lightning strike, and I have become a believer in surge protectors, but I praise the Lord for this experience. I saw God in action as He took care of His preacher as well as what His preacher was to preach. We have a great God, and He is greatly to be praised!
1 Comments:
A big AMEN AND HALLELUJAH!!
YES surge protectors work but GOD works one better.
Don't cha kno wives also have great insight when we men think we kno better?
Anyway, that must have some sermon the LORDsaved that day !! Mind if I read it ?
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