User Error

We fail in life due to USER ERROR. Living life is like using a computer. Ignorance is our adversary. Ignorance is the source of our problems. The fault isn't in our stars; it's in our brains. We are ignorant of how to use Life. We do not know what to do. This needs correction! The program is there, loaded and ready to be used by those knowledgeable, but most of us haven't taken time to learn life's program - God's "rules" -  seriously, and haven't learned how to use it. We are not those who have made themselves knowledgeable. Life is to us like a partially learned computer operation, which requirements leaves us flummoxed when it just won't work. "Do what I want!" we scream when we desperately desire a result AND DON'T KNOW HOW TO GET THERE. There is nothing wrong with the program; it is just our lack of knowledge. We just do not know what to do or how to do it due to our having remained IGNORANT instead of learning the program, the rules, what buttons to push.

"What we have here is failure to investigate" (my apologies to Donn Pearce, author of Cool Hand Luke). Actually, the whole quote from Cool Hand Luke is disturbingly applicable here to what I mean by user error: "What we've got here is... failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it... well, he gets it." "Some men (and women) you just can't reach." Has God been trying to reach us, and we just can't be reached because we just won't listen? We have failure and illness because WE DO NOT TURN TO GOD. And unfortunately that is the way WE "wants it." We shut ourselves off from God. We won't listen; we won't learn; we won't obey because we haven't taken what we have heard SERIOUSLY. So we "gets it." Do not blame God: He has been a-knocking on our head-ball. He is playing hardball, and THE BALL IS IN OUR COURT.

Our suffering, stress, and failure may result from user error due to our not knowing how to have faith, how to pray, that we should pray, what to pray for, that we exist in the invisible world as much as this one, that we are to be holy and upright in character and behavior. If we think and believe that we are SEPARATE FROM God, we fail to see what we are and how we are PART OF the program. The number one remedy is to recognize that God is immediately present, that He is IN US, and that we are IN HIM. "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls" (Matthew 11:28-29 KJV). I.E., LEARN THE PROGRAM.

Follow the scriptures. Be pray-ers. Be church goers. Bring people to God, and make disciples of them. Be obey-ers. We have been lackadaisical, while God has been SERIOUS all along. We have been living a life of slack, slackadaisical, and it has bit us. We have "gots it." If we want anything like winning, we have to play the game.