I'm Workin' on It

Over the last week, I’ve been working on moving all of my files from paper to computer. I’ve spent anywhere from two to five hours sitting still feeding past bills, bank statements, mutual fund statements, and various other things I deem worthy of keeping for a set amount of time into the scanner, turning them into .pdfs then filing them away on my hard drive.

This afternoon, after spending four tedious hours hanging out with the scanner, I finished shredding the documents I had scanned, cleaned up my work area, then looked back at the two filing boxes overflowing with files that I still had yet to touch. My shoulders slumped in discouragement. The four hours that I’d just spent didn’t seem to have made a dent in my mountain of paper.

I tried to console myself by saying, ‘well, at least you know that you’ve completed something even though no one else can tell.’ It really didn’t work.

But as I was leaving the room, I was gently prodded by the Holy Spirit.

For the last two months or so, I’ve been praying without ceasing for God’s direction and divine discernment concerning a particular issue. I’ve been relentless. I’ve been worse than the widow who came before the judge in Luke 18:1-8, I’ve made her look like a quitter with my bloody kneed tenacity.

But I haven’t received an answer.

But as I was leaving the room after spending all that time scanning this afternoon, I looked back one more time at that pile and the Holy Spirit very quietly said: “I’m working on it, you may not be able to see the changes, or what I’m doing, but I AM working on it.”

Do those words make the wait for the final product (discernment and direction) any easier? Nope. But I’m tickled pink to know that the one time of day that I’m not pestering Him with my need, He uses the most mundane of things to acknowledge my persistence.

It seems like its gonna take forever to get rid of all that paper. But I’m workin’ on it.

It seems like its gonna take forever for my request to come to fruition, but I’m a little bit calmer ‘cuz God’s workin’ on it.