Upgrade Your Faith

Everyone's familiar with those popular sayings that always tend to be correct. The most famous of which is

Murphy's Law
If anything can go wrong, it will.

In science, there is

Occam's Razor
All other things being equal, the simplest solution is the best

This rule keeps scientists hypothesis from becoming to complex and convoluted. Works well in the legal arena.

Peter Principle
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

This is very true in business. The idea is that you do a good job and you get promoted. That is until you've been promoted to a level where you can no longer do a good job and get stuck there.

Moore's Law
The number of transistors per square inch will double every two years.

This is big in my industry, IT. The idea is that computer speed and storage capacity will double every two years. It's held true since 1965.

To that end, I've held my own law about computers.

Jason's Maxim
You don't need to upgrade your computer if you don't upgrade your expectations.

I've found that most people who are frustrated with computers are frustrated because it seems they're always slow. These same people buy a computer just for "email and Internet", then try to load the newest MS Office release two years later, plus play WoW. They're the one's wanting their computer to do more and getting frustrated that it can't.

It's like buying a sports car when you're single, then being angry that five years later it can't hold your wife and two kids.

I've seen people run an old Mac Classic for 15 years and it runs just fine, because it's only ever done what they wanted it to do.

So let me ask you this. Is the same true for your faith? Do you you find that your faith needs an upgrade? It just won't cut it anymore. You want more. It did fine five years ago, but now you find it lacking.

Maybe you've upgraded your expectations. Maybe five years ago, you just wanted to stop cussing as much and have a more pleasant home life. Now you're seeing that other people have great experiences with God and you want them too. Your expectations have grown. You're not content with just cutting out the weekend drinking and sending in your tithe check. You want bigger movements of God.

Good.

I don't think God wants us running our old Mac Classic faith for 15 years. He wants us to want more.

Upgrade your faith.