THE TRUTH SERIES - TECHNOLOGY

This week starts an open-ended series called "The Truth." Since I love analogies, I found great parallels to our relationship with God in simple everyday things. Join the journey and send your comments! Thanks and blessings!
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I love technology! I can navigate around most programs with a great deal of ease. From cut and paste to postings, mail merges and file attachments, most of the lingo doesn’t intimidate me. I say “most” because like speaking a foreign language, if I get stumped, I know enough about technology to ask “Donde esta el baño?”

As much as I love my current operating system and applications, technology has one teensy weensy flaw. It keeps changing! Oops, the correct terminology is upgrading. You buy your first laptop, for example, and before you can get it halfway stationed on your desk and booted up, your “universal integrated document reader” has an upgrade waiting to be loaded onto your computer from the internet. HUH!? See what I mean!

I truly believe the reason, rhyme and rationale for upgrades is very simple. Always have a plan for every possible contingency. Again, take the “universal integrated document reader” example. The premise behind the “reader” is to share files. Whether you prefer operating from a Mac or an IBM-compatible system, the reader will allow you to open and read a file. Making changes to a sent document requires a program upgrade. You want the reader to highlight text? Upgrade. What about copying and pasting text into a program on your computer? Upgrade. Document comments? Upgrade. Make coffee? Upgrade! I think I stopped accepting upgrades at version 8.0!

Anyway, why all the long-winded nonsense about technology? Because God’s word, unlike technology, never upgrades itself to fit every possible contingency. In fact, God’s word was originally designed to be the only response to the contingencies we face in life. In three of the four gospels, it states, “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away” (Matthew 24:35; Mark 13:31; Luke 21:33). And when we’re told nothing changes until everything’s accomplished in the Law (Matthew 5:18; Luke 16:17), the absolute seems to resonate from every “jot and tittle” (King James reference here) penned on the pages of the bible. God’s not out there trying to make things right with upgrades. It is right! His word is constant. His word is consistent. His word never changes!

I still love technology, upgrades and all. But aren’t you glad God’s word is not in the upgrades? He meets our contingencies with the truth of His word, the comfort of His Holy Spirit and the promise of eternal life from His one and only Son. If you love technology as much as I do, enjoy God’s Word – version 1.0!
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NEXT WEEK - The truth about...FOOTBALL!