Dumb Smartwatch

I own a smartwatch that connects to my smartphone and it’s supposed to make my life
easier and more productive. I can track my eating, my exercise, and my sleep patterns.
I can reply to text and emails, and even set meetings. The problem is I feel dumber every
time I try and figure out how to do all that to make my life better. Because my watch is
smarter than me, I usually resort to just changing the watch face and wonder why it’s so
hard to make my life easier?


And then I see the new ad for the Apple Watch about the guy who keeps duplicating himself
and the ends with the tagline, “There’s a better you in you” (if you haven’t seen it here’s the
link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms4yxJcvW3s).


It seems like all you have to do to discover the better you is to get a smartwatch. But is
a smartwatch really all we need to get out the best of whatever is in us?

I want the best out of my life and my watch doesn't seem to be doing it for me. That’s why
I’m convinced we already have the ability to tap into the best that’s within us, by simply
seeking the one who put it in there in the first place.


I believe Paul thought the same thing when he wrote this to the Romans....

So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your 

sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an
offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t
become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead,
fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what
he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you. - Romans 12:1-2

I may not be as smart as my smartwatch, but I’ve discovered a smart way to discover the
best of me and it starts with God. I believe that at the soul level of each and every one of us
exists our best, so over the next few weeks I’m going to work on some new blogs to help you and I discover the best in us. In the meantime I leave you with the words of the modern
poet and prophet Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters to ponder... 

“Has someone taken your faith? It’s real, the pain you feel. You trust, you must confess.
Is someone getting the best, the best, the best, the best of you?”