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Relying on God, by Alan Smith
The following two news stories come from Reuters:
"A Ukraine businessman who bought a pager for each member of his
staff as a New Year gift was so alarmed when all 50 of them went
off at the same time that he drove his car into a lamp post. The
unnamed businessman was returning from the pager shop when the
accident happened," the Fakty daily newspaper reported. "With no
more than 100 metres to go to the office, the 50 pagers on the back
seat suddenly burst out screeching. The businessman's fright was
such that he simply let go of the steering wheel and the car
ploughed into a lamp post. After he had assessed the damage to the
car, the businessman turned his attention to the message on the 50
pagers. It read: 'Congratulations on a successful purchase!'"
"Normally accidents like this shouldn't happen," reasoned a Caputh,
Germany, police spokesman. "A motorist following driving
instructions on the satellite navigation computer in his BMW drove
down a ferry ramp into the Havel River without realizing the only
way he could cross the river was to wait for the ferry. The
57-year-old driver was not injured. This sort of thing can happen
when people rely too much on technology."
We do rely a lot on technology, don't we? From pagers
and satellite navigation systems to cell phones and fax machines, we
have become more and more dependent upon our world of technology. It is
important, though, that we step back every now and then and remind
ourselves, "We can survive without all these gadgets, but we cannot
survive without God."
In Psalm 20, David expressed it this way: "Some trust in chariots, and
some in horses; But we will remember the name of the LORD our God." (Psalm
20:7)
Chariots and horses were certainly not wrong; no more so than modern
gadgets. But it was necessary to reinforce the truth that our faith in
not in such things, but in God Almighty.
Have a great day!
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(c) 2002 Alan Smith <alansmith@boone.net>. Used by permission.
This devotional was reprinted from "Thought for the Day."
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