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Reboot - still a term we use though no longer accurate.
Comes from the earliest days of computing.
Computers didn’t just start up.
There was a process.
Card readers.
Top card came to be known as a “boot card.”
From “pull yourself up by your own bootstraps.”
When the computers crashed (a lot) it had to be rebooted.
Built back up to optimal state by reloading the programs.
We still do this today but it’s much easier.
Call customer support - did you power the unit off and on?
We swipe up to close programs and reopen them on our phones/tablets.
Ctl-Alt-Del to “soft reboot.”
It’s annoying but necessary.
Small errors accumulate in the s/w.
We do something that the app never expected.
Power spikes/outages.
Bugs in the s/w.
Occasionally, we just have to start the device over.
As we move into the 3rd calendar year of pandemic life, we need to reboot.
By now, we all recognize the interruptions, outages, changes that have become “normal.”
There’s a cumulative effective on our hearts and minds as well.
I believe it is time for us to individually and corporately to “reboot” our hearts and minds.
We need to return to the optimal spiritual condition that we were designed for.
To get our systems reset, we begin with our minds.
Let’s note a few things that Paul has urged us toward:
(V. 1) We are responding to the good news that Jesus has saved us and brought us into His kingdom.
Rejecting Brokenness
We are rejecting the “system errors, malware and bugs” that enter into us from a broken world.
Willing To Be Transformed
(V.
2b) We are willing to reboot (be transformed) by God daily.
This happens when we change the way we think.
We are returned every day to our optimal state of being (in a manner of speaking).
Evaluating Our Allegiance
(V. 3) We need an honest evaluation of our allegiance to the king.
(faith = loyalty)
Guidelines
Jesus gives us a way to evaluate our allegiance and be encouraged to live the daily transformed (rebooted) life that Paul talks about.
It’s in the Sermon on the Mount.
In particular, the Beatitudes.
The Beatitudes:
Describe a transformed life that honors Christ as King.
Show us how to be transformed into His image.
Sends us on a countercultural mission.
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