Philippians 1:6 NIV84
Being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
My mind went back to the 9th or 10th grade the other night and I thought about the typing class that I took at that time. I started out on the old time typewriter...and then we graduated to the electric typewriter....good times! That was a much improved device...as I would often make mistakes and on the electric typewriter you just hit that backspace button and it would white over your mistake and you could type on....whereas with the other manual typewriter...either liquid whiteout...or start all over.
Then in the next year or so we started working with computers....wow! This baby didn't need whiteout at all...just backspace and your mistakes disappear....back in my day..we would have used words like "totally awesome" to express our feelings over such a wonderful device. Now those first computers were pretty neat compared to using an electronic typewriter...but at that time...the programs used on those computers were DOS based programs...and they were a pain! You had to learn all these commands in order to get the computer to function in a certain way for the end result that you would desire. I was not liking all those commands we had to learn....and also we had to store our work on floppy disc. They were these square looking things with a metal tab at the end and you would work and work and save all your data on that little floppy disc...and then somewhere along the way..either the disc would get tore up, lost or erased...a number of things could go wrong with those floppy disc and your work would be null and void.
But as you know technology does not stand still and before you know it...we have WINDOWS!! Yay, what a great software program that made my life a whole lot easier and my work a lot less stressful.....oh yeah...that's where I was going with this...work..
You see....when I was in that beginners typing class back in my High School years...I had NO IDEA that training was going to be a HUGE part of what I do to make a living....I type all day long on my wonderful little computer....and because of that training I received so long ago...I am now able to use that for something productive...but trust me when I was learning this back in the day...I had no idea it would be such a huge part of my life today. Not to mention did I ever imagine I would have a little computer to pack around in my hand that I could use on a daily..almost moment by moment bases to either look up something on the other side of the world thanks to the internet...or talk to or check on a friend that may live far away..or keep a close eye on my children's activities..lol....so many things that I now see how valuable that little typewriting class brought into my life now..that I thought somewhat of a pain at the time.
And then it hit me....you know there are things that God may be doing in my life right now....things He is using to train me up with so that someday He will use me in a way that I can't even begin to imagine now...that He is giving me lessons on skills He wants developed into my life with the basic information now...so that later when His timing is right...He will give me the job that will bring Him much glory and me much joy and I can trust Him right now..even though I don't know what that is...or what it will be...I know my Father is working in my life to complete the work He has for me until I am with my Lord and Savior.
So I hope you will think back to some of the times in your life where you have received instruction, training and guidance in such a way..that at the time..you just thought you were doing what you had to do to get the grade, pass the class...move forward in your life...but then later found out...nothing with God is wasted.
love and grace to you all...and thank goodness we don't have floppy disc anymore!
phebee
