Over-Active Spell Checker

Over-Active Spell-Checker

            Spell-checker: a curse or a blessing? That is a question I have been asking myself lately. It seems as if the ones on my devices have a mind of their own! And lately each of them has been designing some of the strangest messages you could ever imagine. I do try to watch what this little ‘monster’ is doing, but sometimes I am just too busy composing the message that I forget to read back over what I, and the spell-checker, have come up with. Not good. The two of us have devised some rather strange messages! But in most instances, they are harmless, although I have received some rather humorous replies to them, as the recipient tried to make sense of the strange message from me. And I, too, have received some funny messages, but most of the time I can interpret them.

            Just this morning, I sent out a prayer request message to my Bible study class, but the spell-checker changed the name of the person needing prayer. Not good. When I sent another message apologizing to the recipients of the email, I received the following reply: “No worries about the Spell Check.  I am sure you will find a spiritual truth in it!!” I laughed of course, but didn’t think much more about it until I was in worship and prayer a little later in the morning. Then it hit me: the spiritual truth. We all need a ‘prayer-checker,’ and praise God, we have One: the Spirit. “In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness.  We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God’s will.” (Rom. 8:26-27) As I prayed about people and events, I couldn’t help but rejoice that the Spirit would take each prayer, check it out for its correctness, and make the necessary changes for it to be according to the will of God. My phone, computer, and Ipad all have spell-checkers on them, but they sometimes make mistakes. But I have a wonderful Prayer Checker who gets it right every time!