2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Romans12:2
Many of you know that I don't use Windows on my computer. I use an Operating System called Linux. An operating system (OS) is a set of values and programming instructions that build the bridge between the different parts of the hardware of the computer. The operating system also creates the user-interface that allows you to communicate with the computer.
When it comes to the distorted feedback we get from the media and "in-crowd" of the world we have to adopt a new operating system. God's operating system has a different set of base values compared with that of the world.
The World OS says that our value is derived from our coolness, that there is no such thing as a free lunch and that it is the survival of the fittest.
God's OS says that we are valued because God loves us, that loving others is the way to go and we can't survive without His grace working in our lives (and grace is free because Jesus paid for us all.)
We have to re-format the hard-drives of our minds. We have to reboot our memories that are full of unforgiveness .i.e. give resentment the boot! We need to up-load a new user-interface of love and compassion and need to open the ports of our heart to download His love into our lives.
Unless we get this new operating system it will still be the same old broken self on the screen...
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Theo Groeneveld theo@emmanuel.org.za
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