“This only have I found: God created mankind upright, but they have gone in search of many schemes.” Ecclesiastes 7:29

There was a huge turnout last night for Band Practice. We changed the name of our choir to ‘The Band’ because too many people have asked us if we had one! Now we can say ‘we do!’ But DOING what we do was NOT getting done. The computer that plays the music had made the decision that it needed to update BEFORE we could continue! All of us sat there making small talk while ‘Mr. Windows’ took control of our time!

In all my years of work I have never reached for a hammer or screwdriver and had it lock up on me. Never once did I get a ‘recalculating’ message from them either! Tools were tools that made life better or easier to do a job. Not intelligent entities with which ’I’ had to conform. Now, with cell phones, computers, GPS’s and ‘smart’ everything… mankind is being told to wait for a link to sync! What scares me the most is, I have NO idea what it is REALLY doing! Do you?

Any device that can hold ALL of my most personal information and that requires an update from somewhere I don’t know CAN be used against me. When that devices STOPS doing what ‘I’ want and gets a higher priority calling than my own input… that device ceases to be MY servant and I become ‘its’ slave. With today’s technology, it is easy to jump to a conclusion that MY priority is not really THE priority. Something ELSE is running the show!

God made me to be in complete and open dependence upon Himself. Created in His image, I was programmed to BE His. My life is best lived when I follow Him and update my desires, goals and plans WITH Him at the center of my being. I am to reflect the Master’s invisible hand and make it visible to those around me. But there is one crazy catch!

Unlike the technology of today, updating my life to sync with ‘God’s will’ is always a critical process… but it is also ALWAYS voluntary! It is literally impossible to make the right choices in life if I am scheming to overthrow the Master. I have found that the longer I have put off the update, and the further away I have gotten from Him, the longer and harder it is to accept and implement His update in my life!

I don’t know what Windows is really doing when it forces me to wait. Maybe dark people ARE plotting dark things down the road. But I DO know my Creator…personally! And ALL of my past updates have proven that he is ALWAYS good and loving towards me. So when I get the message to update with Him, I think I will take it! He’s already proven to me that He knows what He is doing!  I’ll wait!