Robots

Just recently, I came to a new and simple understanding of the fact that God knows everything we are going to do and say before we ever do it. there are certain aspects of God's omniscience that I'm not even going to pretend to understand but there are other parts that may not be all that mysterious after all. the part that I am talking about is that part of us that is sinful and broken by nature.
I think it really is easier for God to predict us than we think in the same way that it is very easy to predict what a robot will do if you know what it is programmed to do. A robot will not operate outside of it's programming. In the same way, we are born with a programming that is broken and bent towards doing evil. We're robots with a really bad program and a really predictable pattern.
God has been around for a long time.....I would imagine that He knows exactly how every choice we make is going to play out. Even as original as we may think our decision making process is, God has been around for a long time....He knows where it's going with out having to "see in the future" (although He certainly has that ability as well). Even in our most inventive expression of sin, we're predictable. There's not much freedom in being predictable and there's not much wisdom in ignoring the only One who knows how it's all gonna play out...

the evolution of the answering machine

the other day I was thinking about all of the technological changes that I have seen in my lifetime. when you really stop to think about it, you would think that so much change could be traumatic... I remember the first time we got an answering machine at our house...you remember...the ones with the full size cassette tape that you had to rewind to listen to all of your messages..and then that answering machine tape thing came out that had all of the cool songs that you could use as your answering machine message..."wait- for - the beep, you gotta leave your name, you gotta leave your number, wait - for - the beep..." then the next installment of the answering machine came out where you had a mini cassette and a smaller answering machine box to put by the phone on your nightstand...and of course as the answering machine evolved digitally..it has now become a part of your phone or a service that you can get through your phone company....all of that change in about 10-15 years...

Because our generation has grown up in a perpetual state of change, we really don't think much about the evolution of the answering machine but what we often forget is that in our lifetime, we have experienced what for other generations would have been hundreds of years worth of technological change. I wonder if part of cause of the rising levels of stress and heart issues is simply due to never knowing what kind of answering machine will be using next week..okay that may be a stretch but seriously...I know that we speak of change as a positive thing especially when it comes to spiritual things and we are constantly looking to change our churches whether that is the worship style or the dress code..but I also think that it is more crucial than ever to have something in our life that never changes...yes, I am about to give the "sunday school" answer...If we are not completely engulfed in our relationship with the Unchanging God then I am not sure if we will be able to keep our sanity in our everyday tornadoe of change that we live in.. Maybe I need to make a list of God's unchanging characteristics and write them in Sharpie on a list and set it right next to my phone as a reminder that I need something/someone in my life that never changes

"first blog entry"

everyone has to have the "this is my first official blog" entry...so here's mine. I won't waste much of yours or my time because I don't have anything worth saying bc I'm primarily thinking about getting this page set up.... until next time my friends...