I am at rest in God alone

Psalms 62:1-2  [For the leader. Set in the style of Y'dutun. A psalm of David:] My soul waits in silence for God alone; my salvation comes from him. He alone is my rock and salvation, my stronghold; I won't be greatly moved.  (CJV)

Being so close to Christmas I imagine like most parents and people in general, many are feeling quite tired at this stage.  Not only from the busyness of the season, but due to the financial expenditures also.  I am one of these too, as I have to be there to do all of this choosing presents, and figuring the money, and that everything is fair amongst the children, and adults even the in laws.

As I woke up this morning and rubbed the sleep from my eyes, looking at my phone to see my morning devotion verses, Psalms 62:1 hit the bulls eye.  That is what I need today, and as I ponder that thought it is what I need to remember every day, especially come the end of every day. 

Starting this day realizing I waiting-ly rest in the Lord and find confidence in His Salvation to come.  My strength is renewed and what ever comes my way today is within my Lord’s care.

Really what more is important than to recognize that God has everything in control, in fact it is Jesus who holds everything together, as we see in the letter to the Colossians in the Bible. 

All of our Lord’s activity in the past present and even the future is directly related to our lives and God’s Will is being accomplished.  I find it much better to be involved, than to be not. 

That word “not” is terrible, when it is used to see if I am in the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus.  That would mean that I would be an object of God’s Wrath, and that’s not good. 

We celebrate the Birth of Jesus in a couple of days and the hustle and bustle will be over and Joy will abound.  My hope is that your joy is that Jesus' Birth is the birth of not only our Peace, but our restful waiting for our day of Salvation from this life of sin.

Invite Jesus the One and only Unique Son of God to be your Savior and Lord today and join me in Salvation to the Kingdom of God.

Merry Christmas

Bill Collier

Teenagers moving on to new social technology

Like good surfers ride the power zone of the wave, so the teens are riding the power zone of the tech wave.  New reports are showing that teens are staying up to date with new tech for a lot of reasons.  Green grass, or maybe just the quest for the next popular virtual hangout.  Others are moving on because for example, facebook, their parents have infiltrated and they find it difficult to express themselves freely.  I’m sure there are several other reasons out there, but you get the idea.

Part of this movement taking place is the new wave of smart phones such as Android and many others.  Where in the past we have seen the changes on an annual basis, now it seems like six months or even with each new data phone that is introduced.  These phones are no longer majorly known as phones really, the ability to call is just one feature available.   I imagine if you were to do a survey, asking to list the features in order of importance; you would find the phone feature isn’t #1, its maybe #3 or even 4.

With the “APP” invasion we are seeing an unbelievable slue of apps that do things like track satellites, to all of your calendars synchronized, even as many people you want too.  I use this for my family, it keeps us all on the same page.  I’ve even downloaded an app that turned my phone into a tricorder, yep right out of Star Trek, and it works too, not quite like the TV show.

Personally I’m finding myself leaving my mini or my netbook at home more often.  In evaluating where I am going and doing, I find it not necessary.  If I want to blog, my droid does it, if I want to tweet, check email or send some, my phone takes care of business.  In fact anything I want to do my droid is on the job.  I have friends with data phones asking me “do they have a keyboard to plug into phones yet?”.  Actually palm had that years ago, it will be interesting if someone figures this out or palm reinstitutes theirs. 

The change is coming, the new social network is definitely your smart phone, and with new technologies like Location, and now HD, and that whole photo and video thing, now everyone is a blogger, news commentators, food and movie critics, and anything else you can imagine. 

In the past I have been in this place before, where I felt like I can’t imagine what else we could use or even need.  But as history has proven, there is more out there that I will love to check out and I’m sure enjoy as it makes my life easier, well, who knows about that.  Can you imaging having a data companion that even monitors your health?  Wouldn’t that be a good way to prevent any kind of illness.

It looks to me that the next social network will be more like social clicks.  We see this happening with Twitter and others including location technology and video.  With the data phone you don’t need a website, just a group communicating with pictures, videos, sharing, and location.

By the way; I only mentioned Android because out of all the smart phones I've used and researched its the only one worth mentioning.  Looking to the future I believe it is the only operating system poised to keep advancing to meet the needs of public and corporate society, able to retain flexibility to adjust in an ever changing society’s needs with apps at an affordable price and even free to boot.

Bill Collier