The World Magazine article went on to say: “Farmers have been using GPS guidance to reduce overlap and to work at night for years, but it has required a driver in the cab. If cost and safety hurdles are cleared for autonomous tractor systems, they could enable farmers to take advantage of good weather days by doing 24-hour planting—or to automatically run a grain cart alongside a combine during harvest.1
Isn’t that just amazing? Man has achieved so much in the last 150 years as far as modern-day technology. The United States of America has led the world in technological advances and much of the world has benefited from all of the various inventions and patents. If it wasn’t for these inventions men, women, boys and girls would not be wearing clothes that fit properly nor would they be able to keep in touch at the touch of a button on a cell phone, nor would they be able to be fully protected in a car accident. Years ago people only dreamed of some of these things; but now these things have come to fruition.
The issues that we face today are not that we don’t have enough technology. On the contrary, we have plenty of technology that has crippled many people. For instance, the invention of the television may have been a marvelous thing, but now it has crippled communication amongst various families who watch on average five to six hours of television a day. Another example is the internet. The internet was created originally for the State Department and for our Armed Forces but it quickly developed into a world wide web in which anyone from anywhere could be “online.” With this online capability people have been so engrossed that many of them have forgotten how to have a “face-to-face” conversation with someone else because of the anonymity of the internet and the various chat rooms. What about food technology? We have huge freezers full of food while many around the world are starving for just a morsel.
But what is even more distressing is the fact that we have all sorts of modern ways to study the Bible, yet, unfortunately speaking, many do not delve into using these tools. There are websites from where you can read the Bible in just about any known language. There are Bible study tools online and even that one can purchase for their computers, yet, for whatever reason, they are hardly ever used. One can download books on a computer notebook or iPad, but what is downloaded more than books? Movies, music and such things that are merely distractions like computer games.
And what of the Bible itself? We have Bibles that have study notes in them. We have Bibles that you can read that are large print or regular print or small print. You can buy a Bible that has the Greek and Hebrew texts along with the translation of both language. You have Bible studies and videos and Christian music. And yet we find that there are very few people relatively speaking that spend much time in the study of the Bible. When life serves up a bowl of lemons, to whom do people generally turn? Believe it or not, many still turn to the Church for answers. And what do most churches do? They generally turn the away to some other organization that can help them.
The fact of the matter is this: If you have access to the technology of our day that allows you to study the Bible and to learn how to really live life to its fullest, what’s holding you back? God’s Word says very clearly in 2 Timothy 2:15:
Study to show yourselves approved to God, a worker who doesn’t need to be ashamed, rightly teaching the word of truth.We have all of the tools that we’ll ever need to know the Lord Jesus through His Word. Why not stop, pray and pick up your Bible and read it out loud for a while. You’ll be amazed how God still speaks even in a world that is full of devices and distractions.
1 World Magazine, Auto Farm, September 24, 2011, Vol. 26, Num. 19, pp. 63.
