This morning I was very frustrated by the fact that the network card in my computer suddenly died. Well it didn't exactly die as such, but it became very ill :-) It would work OK for a couple of minutes then just stop until I unplugged the network cable then replugged it.
Annoyingly, this happened months ago when the fault lay in something in the router in the house.
Anyway, this affected everything I tried to do this morning- internet, email, music listening- even editing files on my computer!
It was crazy. It was easily fixed once the problem was identified. Rip out one card then install another.
That got me to thinking. Just how dependent are we on our technology? For me, the computer is the "can't live without" gadget. For others, it is the mobile phone or the television or the car.
What would happen to our lives if our favourite gadgets no longer worked?
I can't imagine giving up my computer and laser printer for a typewriter and spirit duplicator- how I remember getting high on the fumes! Remember life before the internet? There was a time before Google when I had to look up information in books!
I remember the time when I was taken ill and Margaret had to drive me from our home in Hay to hospital in Albury 3 hours' drive away. We had no credit card then and there was no ATM in our town and it was after the bank had closed, so friends drove us out to the 24 hour truck stop and paid for the petrol for us.
I guess I'm sounding old, but it's amazing how technology has changed the way we do things, even in the course of my life.
But despite all of that, people have not changed. The same problems exist now as they did then. The root problem of everything is our alienation from God- the source of life. That allienation separates us from other people, disrupts our lives and makes us ill at ease within ourselves.
The Good News is that Jesus in His death on the cross restored us as God's friends and opened the way for the rubbish in our lives to be cleared away.
Back in 1976, at the age of 18 I made the decision to follow Jesus wherever He would lead me. The change in my life since then is even greater than the rate of technological change in the world. I can't imagine going back to living for myself.
If you haven't done it before, ask God to give you a new life in Jesus today. You will be amazed at the difference He makes.
Blessings
Keith
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