CloudHQ Saves, Just Ask DeskJockey123@email.com

The other day I was desperately trying to get Microsoft Word on my iPad.  It should have worked and I guess it did work, but the problem was that it couldn't open any of my documents on Drop Box.  (These are all computer programs and Apps).  Donna and I were sitting in my office in front of my computer until finally a simple prayer escaped from my lips that spoke of complete surrender, "Lord help me," I said, shaking my head.  We couldn't get it to read what I needed it to read and if it couldn't do that then it was as good as worthless.


Just before I closed it up and turned off the computer, I saw a note that someone had posted on the Microsoft Help page.  It wasn't from someone who worked at Microsoft.  It was from a fellow 'digital struggler' who had run into pretty much the same problem I had.  He suggested that I look up a "Cloud Sharing" program called, Cloud HQ (http:://cloudHQ.net).  He claimed that all you had to do was click here and click there and create an account and then you could easily synchronize from the one to the other.  I was skeptical, of course, but I was also desperate.  I read his instructions one more time and then clicked over to cloudhq.net and low behold it was just as easy as he'd promised.  In a matter of minutes I could have Drop Box sharing my files with Sky Cloud Pro in such a way that I could actually open and use them!


I was ready to give up.  I was frustrated and nothing I got from either software company was leading me in the direction I needed to go.  And then a person--an individual whom I didn't know from Adam--offered a friendly word of advice and voila! I discovered that there was a way out of my dilemma.  And it is a way I would never have found if not for the word of somebody who had been there before.  Kudos, of course, to cloudhq.net and the service they offer--but there is a deeper point for those of us who follow Jesus Christ.

We Christians get all uptight and nervous when someone uses the 'E' word.  Evangelism always seems so risky, so fraught with embarrassment and the potential for offense that we stay away from it in droves.  But isn't evangelism simply doing what User DeskJockey123@email.com did for me?  Isn't it just a matter of saying to someone who is stuck, hurting, frustrated or in pain--"Hey, I've been somewhere very similar to where you are and this is how God lead me out of it."  Obviously I can't speak for you and where you are, but this is where I was and this is how my faith, my church, my prayers, my God made all the difference.

D.T. Niles summed it up nicely many years ago when he said, "Evangelism is one beggar telling another beggar where he found bread."  In the end, I truly believe it is as simple as that.