Thank you Jea-sus! (now if I could only do that with my soul….)

Posted on October 10, 2008
Filed Under A Geek's Guide to the Scriptures |

Recently my beloved Macbook Pro was acting a little peeked, sluggish, as if it were off its feed. Perhaps it needed another Cafe Mocha–or two. For instance, when I would run Keynote (Apple’s answer to Powerpoint), the machine would practically crawl. Being the rational person that I am, I blamed it on the Powerpoint presentations I was being forced to use.

But yesterday, while teaching a project management class, my poor laptop got so bewildered and forlorned that I had to shut it down, right there in the middle of my lecture, and go on without it.

Last night, I realized that I was in denial over this issue. I needed help.I realized that it was probably not the fault of the Powerpoint presentations, but it was my Mac. Shock and dismay! Not *my* Mac! Impossible! 

In search of answers, in need of wisdom beyond my own, I decided to turn to a power greater than myself, the wisest, most trusted fount of wisdom our generation has ever known: Google.

Using phrases like “slow mac computer” or something like that, I found the answers I needed and came across some maintenance utilities and other instructions on how to help my Mac help itself.  Really, it can help itself. It has as set of maintenance routines that I was inadvertently preventing it from running, and that was the root cause of my problems. So, I manually ran a bunch of clean up routines, and one repair routine, and voila! Problem solv-ed (as inspector Clouseau would say).

Just about 10 minutes ago I finished the last step, that of booting my computer with the installation disk and running a volume repair utility. When I popped out the install disk, I said, to no one in particular “thank you Jee-sus…” sounding a bit like an old time evangelist.

But then I stopped and thought, that was rather a bit flippant.

Actually, Jesus, I do really thank you! Thanks, Lord, seriously, thanks for helping me fix my computer. Thanks for providing me a computer at all! And I couldn’t help but thank Him for a whole bunch of other things.

BUT TO THE REAL POINT:

As I put away my installation disk and continued looking for utilities to keep my computer humming nicely, I thought, man! Wouldn’t it be great to pull out a CD, stick it in my soul, click “run” and repair all the garbage in it? Oh, I’d love that!

You see, the key problem with my Mac, I found out, was that it was not running its daily, weekly, and monthly clean up routines (I resolved that little issue easily enough. I rescheduled them). So after a year and a half of never really cleaning itself up, it started to get a little depressed, and sluggish, and unable to act as its creator intended.

Hmmm….. I wonder… Is God trying to tell me something again?

We don’t have spiritual Utility Disks to stick into our souls, but we do have something else. They are commonly called “the spiritual disciplines.” Ignore the Spiritual Disciplines and you’re going to end up acting like my computer-sluggish, erratic, unable to respond to the world around you as God intended.

[Yes, folks, this is another "Maintenance Matters" article! But it's true. And as technology continues to advance, the fight for routine spiritual maintenance will only intensify.]

Review Moment:

And just what are those Spiritual Disciplines? Prayer, worship, Bible reading/devotional time, corporate worship, “fellowship” with others (not just hanging around, good tho that is), serving the poor, doing justice.

It would be wonderful to stick a Spiritual Utilities disk in our souls, but God didn’t design us that way. But if we “walk in the light, as He is in the light” –well, I guess that kind of maintenance will just have to do, won’t it.  :-)

 

 

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