How fast technology is moving! When I first went to work I hand wrote or typed out memos and then someone nice in the office pool would retype them and make lots of copies based on the cc list and distribute them around the office for me. Then the word processor showed up and I learned to do some of that myself but I still relied on an assistant/secretary to mimeograph the printed version so that something could be distributed. Then came email. It was primitive at first but it lessened the need for the printed paper. And then in what seemed a blink of an eye email took over, voice mail showed up, then everyone had a cell phone, IMs came to the office to quickly be replaced by texting, Facebook status updates and Tweets from Twitter. Before I am done writing this there will be something else that we will be doing next to quicken the message, shorten the gap of time of reception and feedback, close the connection to people around us, and make the world so small that everyone feels like they are in the same community. This trend is not going to change and we all will need to continue to adapt, stay on top of the technology wave and adopt what is next or risk that we fall behind and become out of touch. All of this “closing in on each other” technology reminds me that we are to keep God even closer to us as we work our way through life. Even way back in Isaiah the prophet told us, “Seek the Lord while He may be found; call on Him while He is near”. As I read that verse I thought about how we work so hard to keep everyone around us within keystrokes or speed-dialing distance but yet we forget that within our work and our bigger lives that we are to keep God even closer. I love the part of the verse, “call on Him while He is near”. He is always near if we let Him be and when we push Him away all we need to do is call on Him and He comes right back as close as we desire. Today we will email, IM, text and Twitter hundreds of times if not more. How many times though will we call on God? He is right here no further than the thought in our mind before even the action that our hands or mouth would have to take to call upon another human. There is no faster instant message. There is no closer community than the communion we can have with God today, if we so choose!

Reference: Isaiah 55:6 (New Living Testament)