Techno
Wizard
There's not a single thing on offer in this
all-too-temporary world for which you should ever sell your soul. Alan Keyes
I have a new phone and so does my
husband. We were talking last night and
Jerry was telling me about a guy he knows who still has a flip phone. He decided to buy a SIM card cutter to save
money and insert it into his new/used phone. I didn’t even know what a SIM
cutter was so I looked it up. I guess is
cuts your SIM card down to size.
The phone I recently bought is an
iPhone. You already know how
technologically challenged I am. I was
talking to Jerry on my way home from work and I forgot to end the call. I am driving along and since the phone had
been on speaker all of a sudden I hear Jerry say “Hang up your phone”. I thought I would wreck the car because it
sounded like he was inside the car with me.
I went to dinner with my nephews and they had
to show me how to set my percentage so I would know how much battery life I had
left. There is also this woman on my
phone who tells me where to go. I didn’t
even know she was in there until my nephew showed me how to find her.
One of my nephews told me he is taking a
special class this summer related to technology. He used words I’ve never heard of so I had to
ask him to explain it to me. It has to do
with pixels and moving them around and reconfiguring something to restructure
the design. If you really want to feel
dumb you should talk to a 16 year old or maybe a 4 year old. I’ve found they know more about my technology
than I do.
My husband bought a Galaxy so his phone looks
like a big screen TV. Do you remember
the cell phones that first came out?
They were the size of your home phone and you had to have a special
antennae on your car to use it.
Technology is taking over the world. Everywhere you look there are commercials
about the latest and greatest technology.
As soon as you walk off the showroom floor with your new phone it is
obsolete. Technology companies have us
figured out too. Instead of making a
chip that is compatible with your current phone that you can change every few
years for $20, they make technology that doesn’t work with your old one so you
have to buy a new one for $499. The only
way to not pay that $499 price tag is to call the company and tell them how
long you have been with them. You have
to convince them that you are a good customer and have been for years. That is how Jerry and I bought our phones for
$50. We did have to spend several hours
on the phone with a representative and then get transferred to a manager but in
the end we didn’t pay $499 per phone.
I started thinking about how God works in my
life. He doesn’t keep changing the
plan. The same plan that existed
hundreds of years ago is still good today.
The billing hasn’t changed and I don’t sign a two year contract. With
God I have a lifetime contract and my bill is already paid. Christ paid my bill on the cross.
Prayer for the Day:
Heavenly Father, I sometimes get tired of technology. Many times it takes me away from spending
time with You. If I forget my phone at
home I start to worry and ask myself, “what if something happens to my car?” If I stop and remember that You are always
with me, not having my phone doesn’t matter so much anymore.
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