At What Price, Speed?

 

Romans 12:2 

King James Version

2 And be not conformed to this world: 

but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, 

that ye may prove what is that good, 

and acceptable, 

and perfect, will of God.

A very interesting 2018 movie landed on my radar today -- "The Hummingbird Project".

It's interesting for it has many layers, and facets, on technology, greed, drama, God, and human choices.

Truly, the question is:

At what price, speed?

Would you junk other people, to gain a buck, even 500 million dollars a year?

Would you steal proprietary software?

Or would you create a your own?

Where does ethics come in at work?

Would you trespass on other people's lands, so you can dig a hole for your high-tech project?

Would you bypass these peaceful people's rights, having found a loophole to get under their lands, so you can complete your project?

Would you care about lemon farmers who do the dirty work, as you reap the profits from your commodity trading?

Would you care about any farmer at all?

Would you care about every day workers?

Would you set aside your family, as you focus on your project?

How far would you go for a buck?

How about 500 million dollars a year?

How much work would you put in if you were offered 300 thousand dollars bonus, in addition to your basic 150 thousand dollars salary, to dominate high-frequency trading, through your algorithms?

How far will you take your God-given brains to accomplish your objectives?

Would you choose to serve God?

Or will you sell out?

Will you choose to be God's, following His will alone, and not be used to destroy and discredit others, or make others addicted to your newest software, or hardware?

In the search for a fast buck, or for a peaceful conscience, what would you do?

Are you out to dominate the world?

How far would you go, to serve God, or to serve yourself?

What do you really care about?

Who are your real friends?

What does family mean to you?

Who is God to you?

What legacy would you leave your children?

These are but some of the questions that would pop up as you watch this movie, for you will see how people react, or respond, to temptations from the world.

And yet be faced by simple folks, who would not want to have anything to do with your promise of speed for the world -- at any price.

For they care about God only, and consider the land as God's.

And they know where speed and technology come from.

And they also know how it will all end for those who have succumbed to such temptations.

You will also see how, in one instant, all our ambitions can be flushed down the drain, when faced with life-threatening illness.

You will also see who God's real people are, the ones you've stepped on, and yet they still shelter you from the rain.

This is a wonderful movie of the times.

I hope you get to watch it.

I'm glad God led me to it today.

Interestingly, this article's hot on the trail of what I just wrote earlier:

"Who Do You Serve?"

Image: Pixabay

Updated 29 June 2022

Who Do You Serve?

 

Galatians 1:10 

King James Version

10 For do I now persuade men, 

or God? 

or do I seek to please men? 

for if I yet pleased men, 

I should not be the servant of Christ.

Have you reflected enough upon the work you do?

Or are you afraid to trust God with all your needs?

Are you afraid to let go of the world, thinking, if you do, you'll be lost, and impoverished?

Just so you know, there are many forms of poverty.

There's physical poverty.

And there's also spiritual poverty.

People would say, "But spiritual things won't provide for me, and my family."

"It won't produce food on the table."

"It won't get my kids to school."

"It won't pay the bills."

"It won't produce for my retirement."

Really?

No wonder Jesus lambasted people:

Matthew 6:30 

King James Version

30 Wherefore, 

if God so clothe the grass of the field, 

which to day is, 

and to morrow is cast into the oven, 

shall he not much more clothe you, 

O ye of little faith?

This I can testify of serving God:

When you give your heart to the Lord, committing your works to Him, all will be made clear about the kind of work you need to do, your mission or purpose in life, the people you need to serve, and the usefulness of your service.

Be not afraid how you, or your family, will fare.

God will always provide for you.

He will keep the hounds of hell away from your door.

Don't measure what God can give you, by what the world promises to give you.

If the world is such as success, and such a provider, why are there more poor people than the rich ones?

Why do people continue to struggle?

Might it not be that we've sold our souls to the devil, and continue to step on others, so we can reach that so-called ambition the world offers us?

Might it not cost us our souls, and our chance to be with Jesus, whose promise of eternal life, is the only true thing?

There are really only two things to choose from:

God, or mammon.

But choose, you must.

Matthew 6:24 

King James Version

24 No man can serve two masters: 

for either he will hate the one, and love the other; 

or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. 

Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

What is "mammon"?

Money, riches, wealth, gain.

Things not of God.

Things that enslave us.

Things that enslave others.

Things that keep our hearts away from God.

It's lust for power, glory, vanity, and flesh.

Where are you at the moment?

Where do you wish to be?

You have to choose, and to embrace one -- fully -- and immediately.

Let us not be too late in choosing.

It's really not difficult a choice.

But you have to commit to it.

And that's where people get stuck.

They still wish to flirt with the world, and self, even as their hearts compel them to choose God -- only.

What greater choice is there, than to serve the Lord?

Let your whole life rest upon the Word of God -- JESUS -- the Bible.

That way, you can focus on serving the Lord, who will teach you to serve others better.

But you must become born again, to understand God's ways.

You cannot call yourself a real follower, and believer, until you follow that command of Jesus.

It is the first step to knowing things of Jesus.

Open your heart to the beauty of God's teachings, through His Holy Spirit, and through Jesus.

Your thoughts will change, your goals will change, your life, and work, will change.

You will become a new person in Christ.

2 Corinthians 5:17 

King James Version

17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, 

he is a new creature: 

old things are passed away; 

behold, 

all things are become new.

You will become useful to the Lord, and to others.

In a way that glorifies God alone.

True service is not for self.

It has always been for the GLORY of GOD.

Updated 12 April 2023