Winter is coming, Right? It certainly
has been a strange one, but it was like this once before in some of your life
times. In the 1960’s (64), there was a green Christmas and temperatures were in
the 60’s. So 50 some years ago…things were different but still the same
today. That made me think; as I saw a newsletter from the Manistee United
Methodist Church, their Pastor John Scott caught me with something he
wrote. Check this out.
“40 years ago an apple was a piece of
fruit found on a tree and a blackberry was something you picked out in the
woods before the bears ate them. Today Apple and Blackberry are entities
that represent amazing technological changes that have connected us in ways we
could not imagine 40 years ago.
40 years ago Amazon was the name of a
river in South America. Who could have imagined the dramatic impact that
name has had on the retail sector of our global economy today?
40 years ago if you wanted an
automatic transmission, air-conditioning, power windows and door locks, you had
to ask for a “fully-loaded” model. Today our vehicles are incredible
works of technology and a fully-loaded model is more comfortable,
technologically advanced, and extravagant than our living rooms.
40 years ago every new home was wired
for telephone service and most had TV antennas installed. Today new homes
are wired for high-speed or fiber-optic services that provide television,
internet, and security services. The phone is all but completely wireless
and the TV antenna has been replaced with a satellite dish.
40 years ago there was this really
cool thing called an 8-track tape player. Thankfully is was soon replaced
by the cassette tape player, which quickly gave way to the CD, which is
currently on the way out giving way to new technology in the form of mp3 and
mp4 formats stored on this nebulous thing called “The Cloud”.
40 years ago “digital”,
“high-definition”, “internet”, “texting”, and a myriad of other terms had very
different meanings (if they even existed) than they do today.”
Things change, words change…a cookie
is not just the thing in the cupboard that I look for; for those that know
computers; cookies need to be deleted.
Time changes and with the rapid growth
in technology who knows what 2016 will bring?
One thing we know that will not mean
something different is the Word of God. Pastor Rod is getting ready to take
Redeemer Church through a great series of examining where we are, what we’re
dealing with and making an “About Face”. Hopefully this series will start
a turnaround in all of us here in DeWitt!
Friends, as we go headlong into this
New Year…my challenge for each of us is to get into the Word of God. The Bible
is one thing that hasn’t changed over the last 50 years and smart money says it
never will change! Open it, read it, feel it, share it. Make it a resolution
that you keep! I pray that you all have a safe 2016 and that the Lord
blesses each of here at Redeemer and Christians around the world with a joy
that passes all understanding.
God Rocks and We Roll,
Ron
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