DON’T FORGET YOUR STICK (5 OF 6)
by Craig Smith
Scripture: Exodus 3:16-22, Exodus 4:1-17
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Don’t Forget Your Stick (5 of 6)
Series: Control Issues
Craig Smith
Exodus 3:16-22, 4:1-17
I. Introduction
So there’s a law in computer science called the law of GIGO which stands for Garbage In, Garbage Out. It means, the quality of the output is determined by the quality of the input. It doesn’t matter how good the program or the process is, if you give it bad data, it’s going to give you wrong results.
A while ago, one of the Mars landers failed. It crashed into the surface of Mars and I remember there were all kinds of conspiracy theories about maybe it was shot down by aliens or maybe it didn’t crash at all, but it discovered something NASA didn’t want us to know about, so they just said it crashed! But it turns out the problem was much less interesting and much more embarrassing: they had written the lander’s programs to operate in metric units, but they had fed it English units. Garbage in, garbage out...or, in this case, garbage in and you turn a $125 million dollar piece of equipment into garbage.
It’s a pretty good principle and it works in a lot of areas. If you put garbage into your mind, you’re going to get garbage coming out in your life. If you put garbage into your body, you’re going to turn your body into garbage. It’s a pretty good principle.
But the question I want to ask today is, does the principle apply to our relationship with God? Does God need good people? Does He need impressive skill? Does he need high quality ability to produce high impact results?
And chances are, most of us are going, ‘‘Well, no! Of course not!’’ We know that a God who can create everything out of nothing probably doesn’t need impressive raw materials to work with. At least we know that in our heads, but I believe in our hearts, we often find ourselves struggling to trust God because we don’t believe that he can do much with what we have to offer. And if we’re really going to get control of our control issues, this is a belief we have to deal ...
Series: Control Issues
Craig Smith
Exodus 3:16-22, 4:1-17
I. Introduction
So there’s a law in computer science called the law of GIGO which stands for Garbage In, Garbage Out. It means, the quality of the output is determined by the quality of the input. It doesn’t matter how good the program or the process is, if you give it bad data, it’s going to give you wrong results.
A while ago, one of the Mars landers failed. It crashed into the surface of Mars and I remember there were all kinds of conspiracy theories about maybe it was shot down by aliens or maybe it didn’t crash at all, but it discovered something NASA didn’t want us to know about, so they just said it crashed! But it turns out the problem was much less interesting and much more embarrassing: they had written the lander’s programs to operate in metric units, but they had fed it English units. Garbage in, garbage out...or, in this case, garbage in and you turn a $125 million dollar piece of equipment into garbage.
It’s a pretty good principle and it works in a lot of areas. If you put garbage into your mind, you’re going to get garbage coming out in your life. If you put garbage into your body, you’re going to turn your body into garbage. It’s a pretty good principle.
But the question I want to ask today is, does the principle apply to our relationship with God? Does God need good people? Does He need impressive skill? Does he need high quality ability to produce high impact results?
And chances are, most of us are going, ‘‘Well, no! Of course not!’’ We know that a God who can create everything out of nothing probably doesn’t need impressive raw materials to work with. At least we know that in our heads, but I believe in our hearts, we often find ourselves struggling to trust God because we don’t believe that he can do much with what we have to offer. And if we’re really going to get control of our control issues, this is a belief we have to deal ...
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