I bought a Macbook Pro last week. A very big purchase. The nice packaging and the sleek design brought me back to Christmas Days’ of my youth: giddy and excited to put my new toy to use (no bubble wrap to pop though). But this circumstance is a little different. My view of my new computer isn’t one of consumption, then forget about it in a few months. There’s an understanding that work and projects done on this machine will help enlighten, encourage and strengthen those who are disciples of Jesus.

With this understanding, I prayed ‘Lord, let me use this Mac to give you glory’. Right now, my computer is pretty bare. No new programs, a very empty hard drive. As a recording engineer, this computer will be soon filled with music software programs and hundreds of sound files, ready to be spliced up and mixed. But there will also be a number of Gigs saved for God’s Kingdom. The makeup of God’s consecrated Gigabytes is yet to be determined. But whatever it will be, I’m ready for it.–
D.H.

(Dalton is a longtime friend from East Gate Alliance in Ottawa, and a part of the next wave of young people God is using to re-shape the church.)