Google It!

It was a 2nd grade math question that I should know. What is the difference between a trapezoid and a rectangular prism? Something like that. Well, here's the thing, I didn't. I know, I'm 37 and have a MBA but I couldn't help my daughter with her 2nd grade math question. So, I said, "When you all else fails, you Google it!" I thought this was ingenius and what every techy youngster would agree to. My 8 year old said, "Mom, what happens when you don't have Google to help you." My daughter has always been very sharp with words it happens to be the one thing that stings between us but it also happens to be the one thing that teaches me daily. It is one thing that God sends me to put me in my place. I replied. "Then you, well...you have to use other resources." I didn't have a good answer really. Because in my head I knew she was right. I was becoming too dependent on this Google to solve my problems. As I have rolled this around in my brain the last few days I have decided that's not the only thing I have become dependent on this Google for. Instead of God, I turn to Google to help with other issues. Instead of God, I look at the internet for an answer to my health problem, to my family situation, to my financial downfall, to my career choice. Instead of turning to the one and only sovreign Lord I turn to fancy computers to look for answers. How sad. How lonely. How pothetic. What happens when you don't have Google. Then you turn to God. Then you get down on your knees because no one else is there to give you a quick fix. I fear this is what our society has come to. I fear this is what I do myself, I am not pointing fingers except to myself but I know that God and God alone can help. Not staring at a computer screen, not facebook, not twitter--now these are resources but how much do we trust them for our lives. Turn to God, then to Google. Put God first. How much of our lives are spent staring at a screen when they may be better spent staring up at heaven and praying for guidance and help from the one who really knows the answers. Following Jesus.