Nagmumula sa Panginoon; Day221

Pro 29:26  Marami ang nagsisihanap ng lingap ng pinuno: nguni’t ang kahatulan ng tao ay nagmumula sa Panginoon.
Pro 29:26  Many crave and seek the ruler’s favor, but the wise man [waits] for justice from the Lord.
Pro 29:26  Many seek the ruler’s favor; but every man’s judgment cometh from the LORD.

Every minute while we are still breathing, we are constantly making decisions.  One software programmer wrote that life is like a software program, just a bunch of 1’s and 0’s.  I did not understand at first and as he explains, he said that there are only 2 things the program asks in every line of code. It is either do this or do that or get this or get that until all the code are executed to finish the task that the software wants to accomplish.  Our lives are like that, we are constantly at the command line waiting for an instruction to be executed. Let me illustrate an example:

At home-Start of my day today:
1. Alarm clock beeping, turn off alarm clock and get up or turn off the alarm clock and go back to sleep… go to step 2
2. Go to the kitchen, grind/brew coffee/eat bagel or grind/brew coffee or delete bagel breakfast… go to step 3
3. Go to the office, read the Bible, write journal or just do nothing… go to step 4
4. Get dressed for cycling, ride bike … go to step 5
5. Take the easy route or take the hilly route … go to step 6.
6. Cycling done, take a shower.. go to step 7 
OK, you get it.  we always make a decision in everything we do. It is either yes or no (1’s and 0’s), do or not do, go or not go, call or not call.

So what is the relevance of the 1’s and 0’s in today’s reading? The answer is the programmer.  The person that creates the program.  The person that designed the program.  Most of us are under someone’s management unless you are living in a remote island by yourself.  We are bound by that management rule (spoken/non-spoken). At home, my wife has a (silent) management rule.. ie. be faithful to me, be truthful to me, cook me breakfast every morning, vacuum the house etc.  At work, come to work on time, do your job well, don’t waste your time … etc. On the road, speed limit is 70mph, no left turn, stop signs.  There is always a rule no matter where we go.  We have to follow those rules or the system we are in will fail.  What system? The system of marriage, the system of work, the system of road safety. 

Most of the failures in life are due to our wrong interpretations of the programmer’s command.  We deviate from the original plan and that is why failure happens.  There are so many examples that I can enumerate here… failure of marriage, failure of work, failure of health, failure of finances and if you examine the failure mechanism, you will discover that there was one time that you violated one rule and big event follows. Those event sometimes changes lives.

It is easy to seek the pleasure of our management team but such is not the ultimate goal.  The lesson from Proverbs 29:26 is follow the guidelines from above and you are always in the right track no matter what.  Don’t please people, please God instead.

MIT (Most Important Task)
0. Church
1. 10Mile Time Trial
2. Iron clothes
3. Mow yard
4. 1K swim
5. Continue FL expedition prep

0000, Sleep
0100, Sleep
0200, Sleep
0300, Sleep
0400, Sleep
0500, Breakfast; Journal
0600, Journal
0700, 10Mile bike
0800,
0900, Celebration Church
1000, Celebration Church
1100, Grocery shopping
1200,
1300, FL expedition prep
1400, FL expedition prep
1500, FL expedition prep
1600,
1700,
1800,
1900, Mow yard
2000, 1K swim
2100,
2200,
2300,
2400, Sleep