you ever had a day that just gets under your skin? Have you ever had
a piece of technology annoy you to the point you wanted to throw it?
Do not worry my friends you are not alone! Last month while we were
in Cambodia I nearly reached my breaking point with a printer. In
Cambodia people are very economical/cheap. During our stay we were
privileged enough to use an external ink cartridge printer. For
those of you that have never used one I will explain what it looks
like. It is you normal every day printer… with a hose that runs
out of it to ink jars sitting on the table. The hose is connected to
the ink feed inside the printer itself. Therefore, as the cartridges
go left and right so does the attached hose.
Cambodia they use sticky tape to keep the hose mounted to the
cartridge. This is a great idea except temperatures are in the 90’s
and tape does not stick in that kind of heat. The result is the hose
getting pinched and the print job getting ruined. I forgot to tell
you that the hose never keeps ink inside. There are ALWAYS air
pockets the cause the printer to stop because it is out of ink. I
sat at the printer almost every day… fighting and fighting the
stupid thing. One day I actually got a knife and started cutting the
printer. No worries, I received permission from our contact first.
I cut the printer in the areas where the hose was getting pinched.
Thanks to my idea the printer was working again…. for about three
minutes.
day Jessica walked into the room and would not even walk near the
printer, she just stood in the doorway. She
told me that her anxietylevel became overwhelming if she stepped to close to the printer. I
laughed at her because I could relate to her anxiety. I was stuck at
the printer all day long for two weeks. It got so bad that one day
Nicole was assigned to be my support. Nicole, God bless her, just
sat there telling me jokes and playing music for me. I am very
fortunate to have her as my team mate!
night. We were sitting around the dinner table and I was venting my
frustrations about the situation. I decided that I had had enough
and I was going to anoint the printer with oil and prophecy
functionality over it! So that is exactly what I did. The next day
I went to work early with a zip-loc bag full of plam oil. As I
walked into the office I could hear western face off music playing.
At this point it was just me and the printer. I told the printer
this town is not big enough for the both of us! (Ok I made that part
up! It never happened) So back to reality. I walk in the office
and give the printer a good stare. I slowly walked over to the
printer and opened up my bag of oil. I stuck my index finger in the
bag and pulled it out and rubbed that oil all over the printer. I
began to tell the printer that it was no longer allowed to
malfunction. I reminded the printer that Jesus was the name above
every name. (Visual Illustration)
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________
Jesus
Epson
I
proceeded to inform the printer that it was required to print when it
was told to print and errors were no longer acceptable.
I tell you that it worked! The printer did not malfunction for the
rest of the day. The next morning Nicole went into work before I did
because she had to print some brochures for her project. She told me
that when she sat down at the computer she was pretty confident that
an Angelic hand was upon the printer!
Hebrews
1:14
Are
not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will
inherit salvation?
Here
is the point. God loves us! God cares about everything we are going
through and it is His desire that we have good stuff! If you don’t
believe me read this.
Luke
12:32
“Do
not fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to
give you the kingdom.
Try
to remember no matter what you are doing… it can be for God. I am
not trying to be super spiritual and say everything is for God. I am
simply saying that you can chose to point your focus on Him in
everything you do.
