A Thought About That
I was sitting at my computer the other day doing odds and ends when my mind drifted into a memory state. See, having been unemployed for a spell, money was tight and times were a little hard. In this memory state of mind, I began to drift down the road of history that got me to this point; the decisions, jobs lost, and why the jobs were lost. Hard times. Feeling the brunt of hard times will make you think about stuff you normally would not. Why this and why that. Why did this happen and why did they treat me like that. Why. WHY. WHY!?!
Yes, life can get hard sometimes and you wonder why, but sometimes there is no answer to the why. And there may never be in this lifetime the answer to the why. We spend a lot of wasted time on the why when hard times hit. We want to know reasons for stuff that really doesn’t matter because if we did know it still would not change the fact that what happened, happened. Hard times.
Sitting at my computer that day going from site to site just trying not to think; not to think of the why. Not to think of my little hard times and stress. I know there are others that might have more stuff going on in their lives than me, but still my stuff is my stuff and my stuff needs attention too. But sitting there, something strange happened. I decided to go to my site at blackgold.name. Of course, I had been there a zillion times because it seemed if I didn’t go there, no one else would. Another why. But there I was on my site. I had recently updated my site and had put a Bible verse of the day applet on it. Thought it was a nice effect. Thought maybe it would help generate repeat traffic to the site. Thought maybe it would inspire someone. Just thoughts…
On this day, with my little stuff going on, that little applet popped up a scripture that kind of amazed me. Simple scripture, yet so profound that after reading it, I just kind of stared at that applet in a light daze. All this garbage I had been thinking about was put into proper perspective for me by this one little verse of so many. It shook me back to my little frayed senses. It spoke to me the words “son, get a grip! Everything is cool. Everything will be alright.” O.K. O.K. I know… The verse was this: Isaiah 46:4 — Even to your old age and gray hairs I am He, I am He who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you. Wow! All the hard times, the whys, the stress, the mess, the folk, the whatever; it all went away. All I could do was lift my eyes to Heaven and say “thank You Lord”.
Sometimes we need a lift from someplace, a little inspiration. At that moment in time I got mine from an applet on a web site. I know times will not always be the way we might wish but just think: the Creator of you and me tells us He will be with us always and will sustain us and rescue us. That’s major. I check that little applet everyday now. And every day now I am getting better about keeping all the hard time negatives away from me. For I know, though I may not see the how and the when, I do see the evidence of His grace and mercy, i.e., I’m still alive. And still being alive I know He is there working on the big picture and will carry me through to victory. And He can and will do the same for you also. Just get a grip and believe.
