The Tablet
Exodus 31:18
I just got a tablet computer. I feel like Moses with his stone tablets from God--a bit in awe, slightly overwhelmed by what is in my hands, and scared of the potential errors.
This is my second attempt to compose a post, for I did something that locked the works up and lost everything.
That's okay--Moses smashed his first set of tablets, too, in a fit of pique and had to get replacements.
But still--this machine is fascinating to me because it was a human idea. It is the product of an imagination created by God. It is a window into something unique and powerful. We are free entities, given that freedom by the Sovereign of All. We could even destroy our world and us within it. That is real freedom. Of course, God's intent is that we will learn to free our love through our creative work.
We need to remember that as we fire up our machines. Do we really need to use this marvel to watch one more kitten play with string? As we amass Facebook friends, are we also making actual connections that are rooted in love that acknowledges the full reality of the other person? As race through a Google search, are we seeking something helpful, hopeful, or just harmful?
We don't want to end up smashing our tablets in Moses' frustration. Instead, we want them to be, perhaps, a reflection of the tablets that Moses kept that led the Israelites from the wilderness into becoming a people formed by God in a Promised Land.
What a marvelous tool.
But there are times when I fondly gaze at Dad's beat up 1952 Underwood typewriter. Now that was a writing tool!
I just got a tablet computer. I feel like Moses with his stone tablets from God--a bit in awe, slightly overwhelmed by what is in my hands, and scared of the potential errors.
This is my second attempt to compose a post, for I did something that locked the works up and lost everything.
That's okay--Moses smashed his first set of tablets, too, in a fit of pique and had to get replacements.
But still--this machine is fascinating to me because it was a human idea. It is the product of an imagination created by God. It is a window into something unique and powerful. We are free entities, given that freedom by the Sovereign of All. We could even destroy our world and us within it. That is real freedom. Of course, God's intent is that we will learn to free our love through our creative work.
We need to remember that as we fire up our machines. Do we really need to use this marvel to watch one more kitten play with string? As we amass Facebook friends, are we also making actual connections that are rooted in love that acknowledges the full reality of the other person? As race through a Google search, are we seeking something helpful, hopeful, or just harmful?
We don't want to end up smashing our tablets in Moses' frustration. Instead, we want them to be, perhaps, a reflection of the tablets that Moses kept that led the Israelites from the wilderness into becoming a people formed by God in a Promised Land.
What a marvelous tool.
But there are times when I fondly gaze at Dad's beat up 1952 Underwood typewriter. Now that was a writing tool!
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