Lessons | God Uses Computers!

In case you were thinking my title is a joke, its not. Today was the big computer day for me. I have been putting off the restore on my Dell XPS since the day I got it and at the same time a girl I have had working with me at Impact needed a reformat even worse.

So, I offered to set her up and get her computer all cleaned up. So while my computer was being rid of the all the factory installed ‘bloat-ware’ I was doing an even more needed clean up on her computer. Her computer had been infected with everything from Trojan horses to worms and the result was an unending stream of pop up adds and fake system warnings and the occasional pornographic image. She has been putting up with it for so long she has forgotten what it is like to have a computer that is free of those problems. So I was going through the computer, helping her back up the stuff she needed; I began to take the software axe to the roots and I realized that in a way, this is what my job is!

No, not helping people sort out their computers. My job is helping people sort out their lives <whoah! that sounds too big>. For a while at Impact I have been plugging away doing my job and being the church administrator. As we grow and we really start to show the need for more than one shepherd I find that God is continually pushing and stretching me into that role. I find that as every day and week passes I find myself more and more in unfamiliar territory. And not that I have all the solutions or am the person that is going to clean up someone’s life, we all know that act is reserved for the work of the Holy Spirit. But I am the person that should be able to point people to their solution and to stand beside them as they sort through the piles of garbage that keep popping up – the whole while continuing to gently push them toward the goal that they want for themselves and that God wants for them. I can think of two situations at Impact Church that are examples of someone needing to be gently pushed through the garbage in their lives to find themselves on the other side, free and breathing easier.  I feel that God has appointed me to walk through that garbage with them.

So, I won’t pretend to have this idea completely figured out. Neither will I defend the analogy all that much because I am rushing to get the idea down so it sticks…for me. I spent a good amount of my day today surrounded by computers. Mostly to minister to this girl and her family in a practical way. While I jumped back and forth between computers I could hear God telling me loudly that this is what ministry is…today.