This week has been rough…. one of those weeks were nothing goes right. It’s like a bunch of junk just decided to pop up all at once. I’m driving home from work on thursday and i have literally reached my limit. I’m mad at myself, mad at the world, mad at everything! My patience has worn so thin i can hardly drive without thoughts of crashing my car into the back of the guy in front of me who has decided that 52 is the speed he is going to drive on the interstate. I got home, sat down on the couch and flipped open the laptop to get on the internet. It’s a windows computer (need i say more) with absolutely no kind of virus protection whatsoever. This thing is infested with crap. Internet Explorer has so many toolbars at the top that you can barely see the actual browser screen. Every time you search for ANYTHING a hundred different search engines are searching for the exact same thing meaning……..internet is painfully slow. I pay like 50 bucks a month for “blazing fast high speed internet” and still have to wait 13 hours to actually view a webpage. And don’t even think about downloading a song or youtube video because that may not be ready until next month. I have all but picked up the laptop and threw it out the front door when i finally get a webpage to load for a free virus scan. 30 minutes later it had identified a couple viruses that had been eating away at my internet browser. So i deleted the virus and rebooted the system. Problem solved.
Then it got me thinking. I have allowed myself to get like this computer was. Infested with a bunch of junk that is slowing me down and not allowing me to operate correctly. So i prayed….God, help me to identify the virus’ in my life. Help me to eliminate them so that i may give YOU all of me. So i started to worship. I completely consumed myself with words of praise. I went to the quiet place. I gave myself completely to God and through this I was able to reboot my system.
God tells us in Col 3:2, set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. He wants us to put our trust in Him. To go to Him in times of need and hardship. To worship him when life seems to hard to stand.
God is our virus protection.
