Well, the Surface Pro 2 is back in the hospital where computers that crash all the time end up. This time they think the culprit is my Avast Virus Protection. They claim the Surface comes equipped with wonderful virus protection and I don't need anything else. Besides that, Avast doesn't recognize the small but critical updates as non-viral...and deletes them. The technician helping me felt that was likely the cause of my crashes. His diagnostic program showed him that my Surface is only working at 70 % which is what I had noticed with several of my applications. He thinks he can fix it by doing a virus scan and uninstalling Avast. But I will be without my computer for two days.
Last time, just two weeks ago in fact, I was unable to post my blog while my computer was in the shop. This is a test. It may post or it may not. In case it does, I am going to take a stab at what I think God was telling me through this very frustrating set-back.
Spiritually, what we have been equipped with is all we need. (Just like Avast was unnecessary and even harmful to my Surface Pro.) We don't need any extras. All our power is of no avail. It is God whose grace and power is sufficient for all we are required to do in His name. When God is for us, who can be against us?
Honestly, sometimes it feels like everyone is against us, and perhaps they are. But it doesn't matter...as long as God is for us, and we are using everything He gave us as best we can, remaining as faithful as we can, and seeking after His heart and desires for us as ardently as we can. He is all sufficient.
And apparently so is the anti-virus software already installed in my Surface Pro. Lesson learned.
2 Corinthians 3:5
Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God,
And he told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man produced plentifully, and he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’ And he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.’ But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’ ...
Who among you fears the Lord and obeys the voice of his servant? Let him who walks in darkness and has no light trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God. Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who equip yourselves with burning torches! Walk by the light of your fire, and by the torches that you have kindled! This you have from my hand: you shall lie down in torment.
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
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