Rom 11:36 "For FROM him & THROUGH him and TO him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen"
Max Lucado "We exist to exhibit God, to display His glory. We serve as canvases
for His brush strokes, papers for His pen, soil for His seeds and glimpses of
His image ... He uncommons the common by turning kitchen sinks into shrines,
cafes into convents, and nine-to-five workdays into spiritual adventures... When
you magnify your Maker with your strengths ... your days grow suddenly sweet."
Your work is important to God. Whatever your work is, it should represent Him.
Manage them well. Even the breath we breathe and the blood that courses through
our veins are God's investment to us - He expects a return. So, use them to
promote His Kingdom."
Someone sent the above quote to me few days ago.
I pondered. I wondered. How true is the text of Max above.
And then I took a photo of my red mouse over this mouse pad whose words are "wonders'as in Daniel 4:3 "How great are His signs , how mighty His wonders! His kingdom is an eternal kingdom; His dominion endures from generation to generation"
Rom 11:36 "For FROM him & THROUGH him and TO him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen"
I used to liken our Creator God to be like a super computer - with mighty computer processors. The Input and Output devices that we now use to communicate with our PCs. My mouse or keyboard is an input device for my laptop, while my monitor and printers are my output devices.
On the other hand, I often wonder & marvel at the state of the recent technology where we can send photos via our phone using the software like WhatApps to another party in another part of the world in second! How the picture is being send and received often awes me. The Inputs of the signals and data received by the system and the Outputs transferred.
I am bad at computer programming. In my time, we learn BASIC. If you were my age learning this in the 1980s, you would probably know my age. LOL. Those IF...THEN...ELSE...GOTO...and I remembered my program always never seemed to work. Just failed in that logic thing!
Fast forward to 2016, we now have WIRELESS network. We use less of the keyboard. We use Voice instead of the tapping in or scribbling. And today, a foreign language can be immediately translated to another language of the other person's choice! The chicken and the duck can now 'talk' to each other:(
Reflections
If God our Father is indeed the CPU of our lives, whom He sent His Son here to earth for us (such as said, no one can come to the Father except through Jesus Christ His Son), and then only to give us His Holy Spirit (the unseen Helper) in this new wireless world of connection where we can tap unto Him --anyway, everywhere, anyhow , anytime without the need of any I/O device , how then should we live our life?
Apart from Him we cannot do anything. How true if the the brain of the CPU stops processing on our behalf once we disconnect with Him.
Today, we are seeing multitudes of people with zombie like disease - heads bent, fingers hooked. Walking in this posture on the roads. In eating places or evening restaurants - people are so unaware of their next person presence in the seat too. Each minding their own virtual chat , overlooking the physical presence of the humans in the surrounding. We definitely need to DISCONNECT to CONNECT. So likewise, such so called good devices may need to be put away so that our QT with Him will not be hindered as well.
INPUT/OUTPUT ?
Why did Jesus cry out in John 7:38" He that believes on me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living waters."
Max quote above - is yet another affirmation of our INPUT and OUTPUT of this life of having Jesus in our lives. Jesus' ways are often not the world's ways. In fact it is often a reversal.
We love because He first Love us. That is the input of love we receive from Him.
And In Him we live and have our being. That is the output of how we should live.
In Love we Input and In Output we Live to magnify Him.
"For FROM him & THROUGH him and TO him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen"
Stay Connected to the CPU!
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