The True Genius Bar

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Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior, who daily bears our burdens. (Psalm 68:19)

Have you ever felt like you are troubleshooting with your life?  I certainly have.  A troubleshooter is “a person skilled at solving or anticipating problems or difficulties (Webster’s Dictionary).”  And I should be clear that I feel more like the first part of this definition, a person becoming skilled at solving problems.  I can’t anticipate them very often, but they frequently come.  Let me give you some examples just in this last month…  The air conditioner broke down, the refrigerator door wouldn’t shut, the computer stopped working, my phone took a swim, the roof had a leak, and numerous other things have come up.  Each one God has helped Paul and I solve one by one.

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God Size Love

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Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God.  Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.  Whoever does not love does not know God, because GOD IS LOVE.

This is how God showed His love among us:  He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him.  This is love:  not that we loved God, but that HE LOVED US and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.  Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.  No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and His love is made complete in us. (1 John 4:7-12, 19)

God’s LOVE…

It’s amazing and awe inspiring.  We have yet to understand it.  Yet, we so often leave it in the dust to search after our own dreams and our desires.  I want to learn to juggle the things that are important and lose the things that have no importance.

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Who Asks the Questions?

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Who endowed the heart with wisdom or gave understanding to the mind? Who has the wisdom to count the clouds?  Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens… (Job 38:36-37)

Someone told me that they saw this book called “Dancing in the Eye of the Storm on their parent’s shelf when they were a little kid and I thought how fitting this is for the Christian life.  “Dancing in the Eye of the Storm”  what an amazing thought!  How different the storm looks, when we decide to dance in the eye of it.

I cannot begin to count the ways that God has used different storms in my life.  There are times I wanted to kick and scream my way out of these storms.  Then there were times I have found myself in the Master’s hand, dancing in joy because I knew He would make everything okay.  I have enjoyed the below passage of Scripture because reminds me that God will never leave the throne during the storms in my life.

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God’s Tool Box

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For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building. (1 Corinthians 3:9)

The Carpenter’s Tools

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Brother Hammer served as the chairman. The other members of the tool belt informed him that he must leave, because he was too noisy. But brother Hammer said, “If I have to leave this carpenter’s shop, then brother Gimlet must go too. He’s insignificant and makes a very small impression.” (A gimlet is a small tool with a screw point, grooved shank, and a cross handle for boring holes).

Little brother Gimlet arose and said, “Alright, but brother Screwdriver must go also. You have to turn him around and around to get anywhere with him.”

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The Butterfly

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The bolts of your gates will be iron and bronze, and your strength will equal your days. (Deuteronomy 33:25)

The Butterfly

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A man found the cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could go no further. So the man decided to help the butterfly, he took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily. But it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings.

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