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He Works Better Than He Should

 
 Leo Marks would eventually become the head of ciphers and codes at Britain’s Special Operations Executive branch, the entity that was vital in World War Two in breaking and creating codes. However, he almost never got the chance to work there since his interview seemingly went terribly.

  When Marks took a codebreaking test that was supposed to take him no more than twenty minutes, it took him all day. Not very good work for a man wanting to be a codebreaker.

  There was however one issue. When they gave him the code, it was supposed to include the key for translating the message. They never gave it to him. Without the key, the cipher was supposed to be uncrackable. Marks had proved it wasn’t.

It wasn’t that he had failed the test, it was that he had broken it.

  I wonder if we sometimes don’t treat God that way. We give him our problems yet forget to do our part that comes with correcting them. We then get frustrated with God when things don’t turn around quickly. Yet when God still comes thru rather than be amazed, we act disappointed. Instead of seeing his amazing work, we think we are being shortchanged.

God can solve what we think is unsolvable. Yet we might miss it because we think we have done more than we have. Instead of testing God, we should make sure we are giving it all to him. He can make it work even when we don’t.

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