Howdy folks,
Sorry I have not been around in a while. The last week and a half were supposed to be a vacation for my wife and I but turned into a nightmare situation with a business I help out with as far as their IT needs go. Well, we're talking worse-case situation where critical data was almost lost. Without going into the gorey details of what happened verses what should have happened...let's just say it was NOT good.
Payroll was behind, they could not look up inventory or delivery schedules...BAD situation. We ended up using a data recovery service and my prayer the night I sent the drives to them was that they'd call back and say that was one of the quickest and easiest jobs they've had...and well, God took care of it and that's just about what happened. When I got the data back I had to get their software to access it...which turned out to be another nightmare and tech support for that program, being New Year's day and all, was closed. The store had a sale going on that day as well. I was about at the end of my rope as it was my much-needed vacation time with my wife, phone calls constantly, she was stressed, I was stressed. I lost sight for a while and began to get really concerned (there is more to the story but for space sake abbreviated) ...but while in the truck on one leg of my goings and coming, God showed spoke to my heart and made me realize my doubt was yet again unfounded. He'd shown me how He was in control of the situation and I still doubted. I confessed my doubt as sin and prayed to Him and said, "I trust You, Lord." When I got back to the store an hour or so later, within 30 minutes I had it all up and running.
I want to give God the glory for all that because it could have been much worse...it could have closed the store. I did not have the answer for how to fix the problem but God revealed the way to me. Time and time again He's been so gracious to me and guided me through seemingly impossible situations in my life. Praise Him that through my weakness He's shown so very strong.
Though His grace was shown so wonderfully to me in this situation...never so much has it been shown as when He saved me years ago. I thank Him for that mercy and grace and pray that anyone who reads this who does not know Him would seek Him.
Praise God for His glorious grace in saving a sinner such as I! And not only that, but also for His loving guidance and strength to make it through this life.
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