Reflections for A Night
Sometimes, I look at the many tech trends and and analyists (me included) who want so much more a mobile tech future and wonder if we are really missing the boat as to what really counts. Yes, people want to be connected, and have access to their music, information, etc. when they want to, adn cheaply. But people also do not want to be monitored or regulated like livestock, consuming content to produce profit and gain for someone else.
I look at mobile tech in that respect and say that there has to be more than just want we do with what is in our hands. We have to be users of this technology, yes. But, then there is that very important aspect of putting the technology to its best use.
For example, I was speaking with a young woman last night after service and she said that she wanted to be a medical missionary. And I admit, I wonder immediately how mobile tech could be used there. I realized as she spoke that I began to miss the very important point of any and every gift, to serve and minister to those who need. And so as I listened to her speak about her father going into seminary, and a brother wanting to be a missions pilot, I began to check my heart for tech and ask, where this would be put to best use, and am I (not necessarly MMM) laying my life down to do it.
This is a very vital question to one who chooses to use technology as a tool in which to serve. You see, its very easy to get into the thoughts that say "if it can be used here we must use it." Rather than the thoughts "if it can be of service here how do you wish to be served." Using what we have is very important. This is a demonstration of what God has done (to us). But more importantly, can what you use be of service to someone else who is also ministering God's graces to this world? And if it can, are you putting down your own desires and wants in order to see them succeed also in God's plan?
I look at mobile tech in that respect and say that there has to be more than just want we do with what is in our hands. We have to be users of this technology, yes. But, then there is that very important aspect of putting the technology to its best use.
For example, I was speaking with a young woman last night after service and she said that she wanted to be a medical missionary. And I admit, I wonder immediately how mobile tech could be used there. I realized as she spoke that I began to miss the very important point of any and every gift, to serve and minister to those who need. And so as I listened to her speak about her father going into seminary, and a brother wanting to be a missions pilot, I began to check my heart for tech and ask, where this would be put to best use, and am I (not necessarly MMM) laying my life down to do it.
This is a very vital question to one who chooses to use technology as a tool in which to serve. You see, its very easy to get into the thoughts that say "if it can be used here we must use it." Rather than the thoughts "if it can be of service here how do you wish to be served." Using what we have is very important. This is a demonstration of what God has done (to us). But more importantly, can what you use be of service to someone else who is also ministering God's graces to this world? And if it can, are you putting down your own desires and wants in order to see them succeed also in God's plan?
posted by Antoine @ 6/19/2006 11:00:00 PM
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