day 984: Clouds

"All scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach what is true and to make us realize what is wrong with our lives."

Here in San Francisco, we are in the midst of business conference season.  It started a few weeks ago with Salesforce's "DreamForce Conference".  This week is "Oracle World".  Then it is "BoxWorks" and on and on.  What these have in common is the emphasis this year on the "Cloud".  The Cloud has been around for awhile now but continues to be the focus of attention as we rapidly shift away from software applications residing on our hard drives and instead living on a web link that takes us to someone elses hardware to run the program for us.  There is great beauty in being able to access a program from any computer, not having to worry about backup, and allowing the upgrades to happen on their servers, not on my computer.  Even better is that, while unspoken, we all end up running on the same version, at the same time and this brings stability, consistency and ease of access for all of us.  As we all know, there is comfort and assurance when we know the rules of the road and know what to expect each time we power and boot up.  If only our businesses, and all of our people could be so predictable and if we knew, without doubt, that we could expect everything to be up to date and by the rules, each and every time, how much better our businesses and lives would run!

As believers, we have our own "Cloud" that is always up to date, consistent and assuring.  That is God's Word.  As we search for direction and as we look for consistency and promise, we don't have to look any further than the Bible that is sitting in front of us. God gave us His cloud long ago and maybe we are a little like the software industry that we each go through our own phase of development when we go from the times of independence where all in our lives must reside with us, to to turning over ourselves to God and His Word and trusting that someone else (Him) wants to do all the hard work for us and for us to just believe and follow.  What a glorious Cloud God has created for us.  Let's today find ourselves more and more trusting on Him and His Word.

Reference: 2 Timothy 3: 16 (New Living Translation)