Analog Man

Analog Man

Welcome to cyberspace, I'm lost in the fog

everything's digital I'm still analog

when something goes wrong

I don't have a clue

some 10-year-old smart  *** has to show me what to do

Sign on with high speed you don't have to wait

Sit there for days and vegetate

I access my email, read all my spam, I'm an analog man.

The whole world's living in a digital dream

it's not really there

it's all on the screen

makes me forget who I am

I'm an analog man

Turn on the tube, watch until dawn

one hundred channels, nothing is on

endless commercials, endless commercials, endless commercials

The whole world's glued to the cable TV

It looks so real on the big LCD

murder and violence are rated PG, too bad for the children

they are what they see

Joe  Walsh 2012

Joe Walsh 2012

Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord,

 Joe Walsh, rock guitar and jammer for the James Gang, The Eagles  and his own solo career.   66 years young and still touring playing hard pounding rock and commenting on the world as he sees it. 

I agree that we are becoming one dimensional, living on a screen, no longer dealing with reality.

We hide in our screen and create perfection because the real world is messy.

 In another 20 years we will lose all artistic creativeness because we won’t be using paint, paper, pen, pencil, instruments or our own vocals.

The new art is one dimensional, the new music is synthetic with maybe 8 words.

 None of it can be presented live because it is all done on a computer. 

 Many people also see God as analog.  They feel that time as passed him by and it is time to reinvent him.

How wrong they are.  Every time we come up with something new, God must raise his eyebrows and think, “you finally got that?”

 God is way past digital, God IS.

We are living in an “I deserve this environment”.

Waiting for a reward is unthinkable.  We must have it now, we deserve to have it now, it is our right to have it now.

Really?  Are we really serious?

What we deserve right now is instant judgment.  What we deserve right now is eternal damnation for the lifestyle that we have chosen.  What we deserve right now is the Second Coming.

 What we are getting however is God’s grace.  God most assuredly could end it all right now but he isn’t finished with us yet.

Jesus came that all could be saved. 

We were given our walking orders , Matthew 28:18-20  When Jesus came near, he spoke to them. He said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.  (19)  So wherever you go, make disciples of all nations: Baptize them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.  (20)  Teach them to do everything I have commanded you. "And remember that I am always with you until the end of time."

 God is way past digital, God is waiting for us to catch up. 

 God does not need to be reinvented, we just need  tell the story , share the Good News, the world will do whatever it thinks is right for the moment, but we can make a difference.

For the confusion we have a simple solution, better than vinyl, better than 8-track, better than CD, Better than streaming in the cloud. God Is, Jesus Is, you need it.

Blessings,

Pastor Steve