Funny things happen...

...all the time. The other morning I fired up the computer (you know I have never seen a computer lit on fire) and a notice comes to the screen saying windows has found new hardware. That was news to me as I had not installed any new hardware. The next box said my wireless adapter had been found and it was busy installing the necessary software for the adapter. I did not know it was missing since it doesn’t come out. So, the machine finishes and I turn on the antennas to search for a wireless network that I know is there but cannot connect to due to a security issue (yes, I know the password. I set it up but even sitting right next to the computer (the wireless router) I could not connect. The computer finds the network and asks for the security password so I type it in just for grins. Low and behold the thing connects and has excellent service. That’s just crazy. It has never worked like that before. In fact, I am still in disbelief because I check it every day to see if it will still connect. Funny things happen all the time.

Today I posted to my Facebook page these words, “Have you noticed how we look to h$#@ (lies) for answers only Heaven (truth) can provide and then wonder what's wrong? You know the phrase “what the $#@! I am thinking about how peculiar that is to say. For a follower of Christ we are no longer hell bound but Heaven bound. We are being fitted for Heaven each and every day by the trials of the day. Those difficulties shape us and mold us to fit to Heaven’s environment. Heaven is different than here. We need to be different to live there. I think that is why it always seems earth is getting worse because we are not fitting in here so well. We struggle to make sense of the odd-fit. Funny things happen like that.

We relate Heaven and life there to earth and life here? Yes, here is all we know. Here is all we can compare it to but Jesus said we are being transformed. This is not our home. I think we all want to know what heaven is like. If we look in the Bible (go figure) and not the internet (go figure) we don’t find too many descriptions of heaven and even then they are hard to picture. I don’t do the names of colors well. It is hard for me to relate a word to a color. I think that is because words cannot describe Heaven. They just can’t do it. I earth is to Heaven as a pecan is to a pecan tree. There is no way to describe a pecan tree by studying a pecan. The funny thing is we try to explain Kingdom things in earth words and understanding. It doesn’t work. We look all around us for the answer (I call that horizontal thinking) when the truth is only found in vertical thinking. Vertical thinking is considering the nature of our new existence in Christ. Looking, Heaven ward for the answers and solutions that evade us instead of all around us. Looking to the one found in the Word of God and his Word Jesus. Recognizing we are being renewed and transformed over a lifetime to fit into Heaven’s environment/system. That’s how we will roll in the future. Funny thing is we are to be learning to roll like that now even while we are here. Earth has so many answers, solutions and experts it is indeed hard not to look at them and consider their advice, ill fitting though it will be. In the past, we have even taken their sage advice to heart and put it into practice with little or no success, funny how that seems to happen each time.

Maybe “that day” one day soon I will turn on my computer and on the screen a pop-up will appear that says “Found New Operator no installation required,” funny things do happen all the time.