What does God look like?
Today, God looks like an iPad.
I went to a training conference late last month. At a Technology Fair they had, where various vendors had set up booths to show their latest hardware, software, etc. I dropped a card into a hat at the McAfee booth for a drawing they were having. I didn't even know what they were giving away. One of the most amazing things is. . . I had run out of my cards during this tech fair and in order to have a way to request more info from some of these vendors, I had gone back to my room at the hotel and took some scraps of paper and wrote my name and e-mail address on them. It is one of those that I had dropped into the hat at the McAfee booth.
So, last week, as finances were looking tight, I prayed that God would stretch my money. Tuesday of last week, without any prior notification, a brand new iPad arrives at my office addressed to me. Taped to it was the slip of paper that I had dropped into the hat at the McAfee booth along with the card of our McAfee Rep. I listed the iPad on craigslist.com and sold it for the full price Apple charges. That was a $500 stretch in my finances for this month. Praise Him for his provision.
Now, don't get me wrong. I would love to have an iPad, and it was difficult to make the decision to sell it. But, it was such an obvious answer to prayer, it would have totally been wrong to have kept it. God is really working on teaching me the error in our attraction to trinkets. And, that's all this would have been. It would have been a toy, something else to distract from a focus on Him. Instead, it became a reminder, every time i see an iPad, that He is El Shaddai - God all sufficient, or Jehova Jirah - the Lord Who Provides.

