October 22 – “The New Generator”

We had another answer to prayer literally drive into Mom's driveway yesterday.  A good friend from Arlington brought down his camper for us to use as we need it.  Looks like Nathan and April will get first shot at it.  We have a place to go this weekend and they don't have another place until later on in November.  They also brought down some more supplies – water from the North Richland Hills Fire Department, towels from South Oaks Baptist Church, and the camper was stocked with food as well.  It'll take awhile to wade through the supplies and straighten the place up, but it will certainly be a helpful addition to our little neighborhood for however long we need it.                                                   David, the guy who brought it down agreed to stay the night and set it up for us in the morning, so we got up early and headed to Home Depot to look at buying a generator to run it on.  We found one at Home Depot that met with David's approval (he's the pro at this.  Remember, I don't do camping!).  We also found out that we needed some parts so David could create a converter cable so the camper would work with the generator.  See, David used to be an electrician before he became a fire fighter, and he knows how to do all that.  It seems he had several types of connectors, but with one, the air conditioner wouldn't work.  With another the AC and hot water heater couldn't be used at the same time.  There was one part, though, that would make it all work just right.  Well, our good ol' Galveston Home Depot didn't have the right part, so we ended up at the one in League City.    David selected what we would need, and we headed back into Galveston.   When we arrived, he immediately set to work, because he had to teach a First Aid class back in Arlington.  He had hoped to leave by 10 a.m.  Didn't happen.  Why?  Because when we opened the package to the plug, we discovered that although the packaging read correctly, the part inside was not the right merchandise.  It had been either mislabeled or mis-packaged.  And that meant one of us had to drive thirty minutes to League City and thirty minutes back.  Guess who "won"?  An hour later (now it was 10:30.  Sorry, Dave), I got back, and in no time David had the cable created, the camper hooked up, and the air conditioner running.  This won't be so bad to have going when we are working on the house.   And now, the lesson.  I did get one from this.  See, the camper cable didn't fit into the power source.  There was nothing wrong with the power source.  It was humming along nicely.  The camper just had a problem.  It had no relationship point with the generator – no way to hook in to the power.  There were other cables, and some seemed to work right for a time, but pretty soon it became evident that they just weren't good enough.  Get it yet?  We are a bunch of campers.  We do all kings of things to connect to a power source greater than we are, and some seem to work for awhile – popularity, success, money, a great job.  But something is just not right.  We need the right cable to connect to the right power.  Jesus is that cable that makes it possible for us to be in a relationship with God, and that gives us access to his incredible power!  Are you hooked up to God with the right cable?   "Jesus answered, 'I am the way, the truth and the life.  No one comes to the Father, except through me.'"  (John 14:6).   Father, forgive me when I try to connect with you using the wrong cable.  It never does work right.  Jesus, please be my Cable.  Amen.