“Look up and lift up your heads because your redemption draws near.” Luke 21:28
In 1949, the magazine Popular Science predicted “Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.”
In 1977, Ken Olson, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, said, “There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.”
Bill Gates said in 1981, “640k ought to be big enough for anybody.”
Making predictions is a risky business – unless you are God. According to John Wesley White, the coming again of Christ and the end of the age occupies some 1845 scripture verses, and each one offers sure and certain hope for the Christians. Just consider these promises:
“For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of an archangel and with the trumpets of God. And the dead of Christ will rise first.” (I Thessalonians 4:16).
“I will come again and receive you to myself that where I am, there you may be also.” (John 14:3).
“Behold, I am coming quickly!” (Revelation 22:7).
Vance Havner said, “We are not just looking for Something to happen. We are looking for Someone to come! And, when these things begin to come to pass, we are not to drop our heads in discouragement or shake our heads in despair, but rather lift up our heads & hands in pure delight.
BOTTOM LINE:
Quick Question! After your Sunday worship dismissal yesterday, did you observe heads dropping or shaking? Hopefully, it was heads & hands uplifted in pure delight! Another prediction & promise (that soon became a fact) with the computer age was “GIGO.” (garbage in – garbage out!) There are many passages of scripture (begin by reading Romans) to explain the undergirding factor for today’s prevalent lack of heads & hands lifted in pure delight, but I don’t know of any verses anywhere that are as succinct & spot-on for the church today as the 4 letters GIGO!
And what I find so ironic, it is this very digital media hype with its continual subconscious narratives promises & predictions when coupled with our innate yet un-surrendered desire for “SELFISH GAIN” that is making fools of too many of us in the kingdom! That’s the way I see it this morning, always speaking to myself, first & foremost!
Thanks to David Jeremiah for this devotional up to the addition of my Bottom Line, from his book Sanctuary: Finding Moments of Refuge in the Presence of God.