Computer Brains

The last post of the week, Father, may what comes forth from my mind through my fingertips find Your blessing, in its writing and its reading. Amen.

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How much time do you spend in front of computers? And yes, your phone counts.
I readily admit that I spend a good part of my day doing just that – Sunday service prep includes getting all the aspects of my sermon together, many of its components are honed from sources on my computer, it’s typed on my computer, Scripture, PowerPoint, hymn slide storage and formatting. Nothing is done with pen and paper.
The same goes for this blog. I use a hands-on printed Bible, but everything else is done on the computer.
I could go on and on with the many things I do. I browse Facebook, Twitter and Instagram (to very small degrees), and TikTok, as well. I do a bit of gaming, though at this point I limit myself to just one game – I have to be careful, for it can be very addictive!
I read some – though not nearly enough with everything else that’s on my plate. (The last time I read to any degree, most of it was via a library app on my phone and a tablet!)
Something on my bus route triggered a thought of an old Contemporary Christian song. I knew it was old – not Charles Wesley or Fanny Crosby old, mind you – but old enough that I was out of high school…ugh. The song was on an album put out by a group called Petra, entitled Computer Brains.
It was released in 1984 and it makes me smile to think how much computers have advanced and, really, have taken control of our lives. (I still used a typewriter then, though it was electric!)
Here are the lyrics of the chorus:

Computer brains, put garbage in
Computer brains, get garbage out
Computer brains, programming you
Computer brains, what can you do?
Break out

It is an ongoing battle to safeguard our brains and ultimately our hearts. What we ingest feeds our hearts and as Jesus said in Matthew 15:18-19,

But whatever [word] comes out of the mouth comes from the heart, and this is what defiles and dishonors the man. For out of the heart come evil thoughts and plans, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, slanders (verbal abuse, irreverent speech, blaspheming). AMP

What goes in, is what is going to come out.
Lord Jesus, may we be keenly aware of what we are feeding our hearts. May You alone be the programmer of our hearts. Amen.

Nov 3^rd, 2022, Thurs, 7:04 pm