Outside /IN or Inside/OUT ?By: Nathlee Grant
Outside-In
Going through high school I
watched the pretty girls spend all day in the bathroom getting their faces
right. They usually spend hours setting their uniforms which could never seemed
to suit them, hairs were always in place, shoes spic and span, these girls were
always neatly dressed, not a single pleat was out of place. This and other
aspect of my life forced me to think that how I look on the outside determined
my functionality and purpose.
Inside -out
When a programmer writes a
computer program; a program is a sequence of instructions,
written to perform a specified task with a computer. He actually place a
portion of his thoughts (mind) on some platform which is tested for its
functionality, performance and accuracy. Then when he is satisfied he creates
an appropriate house/shell for protection, storage.
Aesthetics is usually the
last thing on a programmer's mind during coding, testing and even
implementation because in reality it cannot perform the functions required, e.g.
how a calculator looks cannot not calculate sum of two numbers or any other
calculations. Actual a programmer is most proud when his program executes
perfectly, rather than a fancy or beautiful design is. The word beautiful in the world of a
programmer is usually associated with perfect
functionalities, “it is beautiful", is exclaimed ONLY
when the program does what it is supposed to do.
Observation
Dig deeper, the program and the house it is stored are inter related and
interconnected relying each other for survival. In this context there are wires
that run inside the house to create that communication between itself and the
program (human body mind/thoughts).
Analysis
I would want to believe
that when God created us in His image and likeness; he formed the house, blew
into our nostril and when he was done said beautiful, it was merely for the
fact that we could carried out all the purposes and functionalities that he
intended for us do. I believe our earthly bodies are the house our spiritual being
a very important role and should not be limited to beauty competition. Is God
interested in our appearances or our functionalities? Outside- In or
Inside – Out
Man looks on the outside
God looks at your heart
Food for thoughts
Food for thoughts, man put
a portion of his mind in a computer which operates in our world but in a
different world/realm, did God put a portion of himself in this, our earthly
body to allow us to operate in a different realm (world) even though He is with
us in this world?
He sends Adam and Eve out
of the Garden, The scripture did not say God left the garden nor did he descend
from them. My mind is going somewhere…but I would have to leave this for now.
Back to the story of computing, since we put our mind into a
computer and it function in that way is it safe to say that we can operate like
God to the extent of what he has deposited in us? Is God is expecting us to
carry out a particular function he had designed us for? Hmm…could it be that we
have not tapped into that aspect of our lives because of the limitation in our
upbringing. Paul said don’t think too highly of yourself neither think low of yourself;
hmm do we know ourselves, who
we are? If I know who I am and aim to maximize just that, would I
not think moderately of myself...?
The correlation of the
house and the program; a set of instruction of the computer carry out a series
of decoding and encoding so that the computer can be able to understand and
interpret in its world (language) what it is we are saying and
intelligently display a result to us in our world (language)..
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