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Never going back
by Lewis McNeely on Sunday, Feb 22nd, 2009 at 12:10 am
For a long time I‘ve used PC’s. My first was a machine with 1 meg of ram and a 40 meg hard drive. I was flying on my lightning fast machine. 20 years later I now have a Mac. And I’m never going back. I resisted for years to switch for several reasons. First, every Mac user I ever knew had what I call “Mac pride”.  The second was price. The third was software. The first reason hasn’t changed much and Macs are a little pricier but worth it. Software is no issue these days as most software the average user needs is on both platforms. I finally switched because I had had enough blue screens, slow boots, viruses and spyware. I was sick and tired of the status quo.  I also resisted because part of me didn’t believe that Macs could really be that much better. But I was wrong. My PC was a Yugo, a slow, yet adequate means to compute but troublesome and simple. My Mac is a Lexus, a fast, stable, intuitive, user friendly, progressive life machine. I can’t believe I resisted the switch. NO viruses (except those written for PCs hiding in emails from PC users but innocuous to Macs.) No spyware, no slowness or instability.  9 months later I can see no reason to ever again own a PC. Let me say to those contemplating a change to a Mac. DO IT. It’s worth the extra money to rid yourself of the headache that most PC’s bring.

Why am I writing about this on my church blog? Well there’s a lesson here. The biggest is that I never knew what life would be like on the Mac side until I made the tough choice to switch. In a recent meeting I attended the speaker said “if it works for you then keep doing it. But if it’s not working, then you’ve got to do something that will work.”  Most of us (including me in the past), read our Bible sporadically, only listen to one or two sermons a week, pray intermittently and basically skate by on doing the things that cause us to grow as Christians. We put up with the instability, viruses and blue screens of crisis that pop up in our everyday lives.  Many think that this is just how it is. That there’s nothing better, nothing more stable, more organized or easy in our lives. Sure, we know Heaven offers those things but we accept the status quo, forgetting that Jesus prayed that God’s will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. We do not have to accept the “just okay” when we can accept the best. We do not have to say it is “too expensive” or too difficult to move on up to “His yoke is easy and His burden is light”. Sure, It will take work and there is additional cost but it is worth it. So how do you make the switch from hum drum to “thy will be done”?  First, ask for grace, His ability to do what you cannot do for yourself. Then make a quality, on purpose decision to run hard after Him and for all He has for you. Finally, do not be legalistic. Don’t set some agenda that makes you feel condemned when you do not measure up. Let it come in the flow of simply being - not doing. Here’s what I’m doing and it’s working for me.  I listen to a teaching or at least part of one every day. That Ipod is for more than just music. Download free mp3s from your favorite Bible teacher and listen in the car, at bedtime and instead of watching CSI. By the way, most smart-phones double as mp3 players so download to your sd card and grow. Second, turn off the world, at least most of the time. Sure NPR and Rush are entertaining but if Heaven’s our destiny why give the world 90 percent of your ear when Jesus IS your life.  Next pray in the spirit often, while vacuuming, driving or taking a shower. Go to a prayer meeting at least once a week. Read your Bible everyday. Or listen to it online or on your mp3 player.  Go to church often. I know some people say they don’t want to be at the church every time the doors are open. But isn’t it funny how church meets only twice a week but that seems to be at the EXACT times we “NEED” to have a little family time? I’m simply saying if barely skating by on your Christian growth is working for you then keep keeping on. But if you really want the blessed life, the prosperous life, the healed and whole life, then you’ve got to stop doing the status quo and start grabbing all of HIM that you can get in this life. I am, and I plan to never go back.

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