Compute Morally

Can the Law of Noah apply to computers?

My wife has run Win7 on her desktop machine since it was released. It’s not that she never found any unwanted malware, but that it never affected the operation of her system. Her efforts always paid off, and her protective software saved her from any sorrows. This is someone who surfs a lot of Facebook and other places where scams and malware have been passed through false advertising, but it never hit her.

This machine is under my moral dominion. Someone gave me that computer, and I eventually passed it over to her. Aside from Facebook and the games there, she uses it for her family history research, and chases recipes and natural medicine. Other family members have used it some, as well. It’s not that the pastor is so holy and righteous, but he and his wife are reaping the blessings of the Laws of God. When you seek His favor and meditate on the implications of His moral character, He extends His hedge of protection over all that you do for His glory. Everything you touch then belongs to Him.

So if He wants us to suffer something, there’s a reason for it and we bear it with grace. Apparently He’s not interested in us having to deal with computer problems of our own. I still fix a lot of other folks’ computers, but ours tend to be pretty stable and manageable.

BTW, I did have another problem with the laptop. Apparently the developers at RHEL, from whence CentOS gets all their code, are not interested in making everything work properly on laptops. It is server software, after all. That’s where Red Hat’s income is. So it burned through a battery charge in about half the time it should have, and refused to connect to my Android device, and a few other things just didn’t go quite right. So I gave up.

Someone had given me a copy of Win7 and I installed that. It’s a hassle because I had to chase down the drivers, since the manufacturer had no plans to support Win7 on this thing (it’s a Win8 machine). I don’t get all the software I like pre-installed, and it means worrying about a whole bunch of things that don’t affect Linux. I’m sure there’s a reason for that and I am not going to speculate, but I sense that God is showing me something. So I am at peace and things work, but it’s a lot of work for me. I’m not worried in the sense of anxious, but in the sense that I know Windows is much more vulnerable than Linux, so it needs more care. The shepherd has to herd computers, too.

At any rate, I’m doing the best I know to please my Father and seek His favor. My story is that it has always paid off in terms of His promises. That it hasn’t always been what I wished simply shows I need help getting my wishes adjusted.