Sat - April 16, 2005

Mark 6:5-6 Call in a Professional 


"6:5 He could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people, and healed them.
6:6 He marveled because of their unbelief. He went around the villages teaching."

I was reading in The Gospel according to Mark this morning and came across this passage. It really struck me. The passage above is from the World English Bible and the words "mighty work" reads as "miracles" in other versions.

It would seem to imply that, in order for God to work in our lives, we need to believe. It is almost like we give Him permission to act in our lives, not that He needs to ask for it, but that He wants us to give ourselves freely to Him.

It's hard for me to give over control of much of anything in my life. As I write this, I am thinking about ways to make my web site less dependent on other systems out there. I'd like to host the commenting system myself, instead of having Haloscan do it. I'd like to handle all of the RSS parsing myself. I want to control all of the systems, that I use at work, myself.

I don't like giving up control. In many things, I don't like asking for help. Sometimes it takes me smacking, face first, into a wall to acknowledge that I need assistance.

I guess we are all works in progress. We can either attempt to do the work ourselves or we can call in a professional. God is the one, true professional when it comes to sculpting the human existence. It's up to us to put down the tools that we keep misusing, pick up the phone, and call in a professional to clean up the mess, and finish the job.

Peace, Hope, and Love.
Michael 
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