Many days I spend much more time than I'm willing to admit just staring at my computer screen, waiting just waiting. I wait for an answer, sitting before the computer as if it were an oracle that held the answers to the meaning of life, or maybe just the problems at hand. The hard truth is there are no answers there, just the information that has been programmed into it by man. I sit here searching for answers to questions such as: what decision to make, where to get the money to pay this bill or that, various HR issues and others. As I sit here I realize that I am confounded by the impossibility of the natural, the idea that something man-made can provide the answers that I seek. This idea is a trap that many find ourselves in, the idea that any problem or question can be solved solely by more effort or more work or more money spent on a problem that we can solve the issue ourselves in the natural, on our own. I have spent a good part of today doing just this, looking for my answers in the natural, and I am once again reminded of the futility of this when the answers that I seek have already been given to me, in my language, in one book (that I have many copies of). I know that I have to do my part, but sometimes I forget that includes going to my Bible for these answers and then standing in Faith that what God said will come to pass.
Psalm 27:13-14
13 Yet I am confident I will see the LORD's goodness
while I am here in the land of the living.
14 Wait patiently for the LORD.
Be brave and courageous.
Yes, wait patiently for the LORD
Isaiah 26:3
3 You will keep in perfect peace
all who trust in you,
all whose thoughts are fixed on you!
