Amazing

I am not stupid after-all. I am getting the hang of this new laptop and I am loving it. I learned a whole multitude of things all on my own yesterday. Well, there was the rather impatient and rude Apple Care specialist who did try to assist. I called for some specific instructions on certain problems I was having synching my iPad with my new laptop. He said, and I quote, "Ma'am, I think it would be a good idea to take some sort of class on basic computer use."

Yes, and I bet anything you can't draw a mountain with beautiful colors that make you think of God.

I didn't say that, but I might have thought it. Still, I practiced being patient with the young man who found it incomprehensible that I didn't know what browser I was using....or really, truth be told, exactly what a browser was.

Then my computer guru Brian came to help me with MASSIVE problems I had developed over the day. He solved them in 3 minutes flat. What I love about Brian is partly that he is masterful and competent at what he can do with computers, but mostly that he never makes me feel stupid. He always makes me feel that everyone on earth needs tutorials on how to turn off a computer. If I had a fortune, I would donate some to Brian.

Anyway, I am figuring this new device out, and am convinced that except for the exquisite and perfect salvation plan of God, this is the BEST thing that has ever happened to mankind. But about that perfect salvation plan....I may not know how to turn off...or on...a computer, or what a browser is....but I DO know this. God has a plan, and it is wondrous. We will never be what we were meant to be. We will always fall short. So God sent His son Jesus to pay the penalty for our sins, and heap the punishment we deserved upon Him instead. When God looks at us, He sees not our sin, but how incredibly we are loved that such a sacrifice should be made on our behalf. It is really quite amazing.

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1 John 4:9-11 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.