Mobile Ministry Magazine

Meeting Your Needs
One of the verses of the Bible that seems to always hit us, but we never quite get to performing well (surely at this time of the year) is found towards the end of Matthew 6 where Jesus says "take no thoughts towards tomorrow, today has sufficient enough evil (troubles) for itself." During this season, I have found that things have been on one eand a lot easier for me to deal with. But, on the other side of that, the push in my mind and heart to figure out what needs to be done next year and the times after is just a thing that teems with stress.

Being one attached to mobile technology, I therefore think of it as an agent that either needs to be put aside so that I am not so future savvy, or something that I need to make better use of so that today I can walk in this present grace that God has provided.

Putting Technology Aside
This is probably the harder thing to do for many of us. At times, I have enough trouble just leaving my Treo alone when I know that there are people and other things to do. This is not how we should be, and at some level, the technology has become a lord over us. One of the commandments state that we are "not to have no other lords besides thee [God]." When we cannot seperate from technolgy long enoughh to share time and services with friends and family, or to do those things that we know do not require technology of any kind, then we are making it a lord over us.

Being More Savvy with the Tech We Have
If it is that we have found that appropriate place for technology in our lives, the next logical and appropriate step is to find out how best it cn be used in our lives to bring glory to God (note: if we aren't using these items to bring glory to God, then they are inappropriate and idolish). If it is that our love is MP3 players and music, then we need to gird up ourselves with the music neededt o encourage ourselves and others. Or, lead others to finding places of music and audio that works as an agent to encourage and edify them. If our love were making websites, then to glorify God with that would be desiging websites that demonstrate his truths, or being an agent that will use a webpage to speak about what it is that God is doing in the hopes to encourage the Body.

In any case, we have to make the appropriate use of technology something that ministers first to the heart of God, and lastly to ourselves. It is then only that tech will meet your needs, and change the world around you to God's gloy.
~ sent from Treo via Mo:Blog