What’s your favorite gadget? Most of our lives are filled with all sorts of electronics & computerized gizmos. You are reading this on your computer or smart phone in: an email, facebook note, myspace or blogspot blog, or on one of the websites. If not, then you’re reading a hard copy composed on a computer, sent through a network & printed on a printer.
Think about all the technology we have now! We have climate controlled vehicles with GPS navigation, smart phones, computers with streaming video, I.M.’s, Skype, text, fax, email, SAT phones, handheld notebooks, Satellite TV, DVR’s, BlueRay players, surround sound stereo systems, and that’s just a few communication conveniences. Look around your house & think of all the techno advances we have in the past 25 years alone.
I was visiting someone in a surgical center today (another advancement) & nurses had a new wand type device they swiped across the guy’s forehead to find his temp. Reminded me of Star Trek or something. Can’t TELL you the medical advances I’ve seen in 30 years of ministry. I’m very thankful for all these.
So what does all this gadgetry have to do with God, anyway? Well, I mentioned several communication advances. There is one you may not have heard about that Mission teams are using across the globe to share the message of God with remote tribes & people without a bible: it’s basically a ‘Godpod.’ It’s a solar-powered or windup device akin to an Ipod. Missionaries can load an audio-bible or other messages to the device & it can be shared with locals. No particular charge or batteries needed as it is solar-powered or windup.
No matter how many gadgets we have or how much we advance in technology, we STILL have to hear from GOD. Just about the time we think we have THE latest device, no more than you take it from the store, it’s old news & out-dated. The only One that never changes, is never out-dated or out-moded is Christ. The writer of Hebrews said this, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”
Sometimes all this stuff actually overloads us with noise to the point we can’t hear that ‘still, small voice’ of God. Kind of like the Bing search engine commercials where folks have sensory overload! I do audio/video regularly & see the audio waves on screen before me. When there is a great deal of surround, or ‘ambient,’ noise around a recording is gets muddy. It is basically noise pollution that can almost cover the intended recording. Sometimes life can get that way. So busy & noisy we can’t hear God! It’s not particularly that we CAN’T hear Him, but rather we are not listening, perhaps.
I challenge you to go ‘unplugged’ some. Turn off all the noise & distractions around you. Pull out a bible & ask God to speak to your heart.
“…Faith comes from hearing, that is, hearing the Good News about Christ.”
Romans 10:17 NLT
I’m definitely not against technology & all the cool gadgets. I’ve got tons of them. I just want to remind us to remember gadgets come & go, but God is eternal. He has an eternal message to us. My prayers go out to the missionaries who are utilizing gadgets to share the timeless word/message of God to a world that needs to hear!
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