We live in a world where everything seems to be moving fast. Technology keeps evolving ways to increase the tempo even further.

I remember when I bought my first computer many years ago. It was an XT  laptop belonging to the family of the 8080 model of computers.  It had a ‘massive’ memory of 512kb  and an ‘awesome’ hard disk space of  2.4MB. I was so taken in with the speed at which this wonder of technology responded to my keystrokes. 

Less than a year however, the wonder of this PC wore off. I realized that I could not run newer software on it and the massive storage I thought I had was nothing to write home about any more. Since then, I have bought and disposed many PCs, looking for more speed and increased functionality and larger storage capacity. Read the rest of this entry »

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where things are at a standstill because you don’t know which way to turn?

I have been in such situations often in my life and usually come out of it with great lessons to learn about life and about the importance of being led by the Spirit of God. Life can look easy one minute and the next minute it becomes so confusing, you begin to wonder, ‘how did I get here?’

In 1 Kings 4:8, Elisha went to a place called Shunem, where he was hosted by a well-to- do woman. This woman was living comfortably well and appeared not to have any problems. After Elisha had visited a couple of times, she convinced her husband to create a room for Elisha so that anytime the prophet visited, he would have a place to stay.

One day, Elisha summoned the woman and asked her whatever she needed. She told him that she was quite comfortable and didn’t need anything. On further enquiry, the prophet learnt that she had no child and her husband was old.  Apparently she had closed the door to the issue of having children due to old age and probably having waited for so many years, had concluded that they were not meant to have biological children. Read the rest of this entry »