With Advent just around the corner beginning on Sunday, December 2, a few friends and I have a gift for you this season: a free, reflective devotional. Collaboration across oceans, made possible by technology, this is our labor of love to friends and family.
During this busy time of the year, make space for reflection as we ponder once again the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ.
With the past week as America and the world mourned the death of Steve Jobs, it seems death is on everyone’s minds these days, including my own. Ironically, as I had attended chapel this week at Cascade, the speaker spoke about death also, not even in connection with Steve Jobs at all.
Yet, when I would hear people talking about Jobs, I couldn’t help but feel some kind of, nagging on my heart. Yes, Jobs was a brilliant man, no one would deny that, and yes, he seems like he was a good man too, but, that’s just it. He was just a man. He did change the world, technology-wise, but remember, all this technology will burn one day. This stuff is just that, stuff. And in the end does it matter that I do in fact have a Mac Book Pro, or iphone, or ipod or iwhatever…. no. It doesn’t matter. Yes, technology makes our lives so much easier, and so much different compared the past, even just 5 years ago, but if I spend all my time engrossed in the technology that I forget to have a conversation (God forbid!) with an actual real person, what does it matter?
If you have some time, I found a great article that really brought to light some of that nagging feeling I couldn’t shake earlier this week, read it here.
Death, for those of us who are believers in God, through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, we have hope. We know where we are headed, so it kind of makes everything else secondary, when you really think about it. I’ve spent some good time thinking about that lately. How am I spending my money? How am I spending my time? How selfish am I being with these things that are “mine”?
It’s all sobering, if we really take the time to think about it. We could change the world with an ingenious idea, but if we never change a single heart, what does that matter?
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