Are You Trusting a Chip?

             New Year's resolutions.  They seem to haunt you don't they?  What are your goals for the New Year?  How will this year be different from the last?  When it comes to New Year's resolutions, weight loss and physical fitness are within the top 10 New Year's resolutions made.  But did it ever occur to you that you would not have to exercise, diet,  or have bow/stomach reduction surgery in order to lose weight?

  

       This year the U.S. Food and Drug administration recently approved the Maestro Rechargeable System  for use in America.  Once in your body, this remote controlled  electronic implant blocks the communication line between your brain and stomach.  Voilà, you no longer feel hungry!  At first this might sound like a good idea, but what are the implications? 

            1.  You lose personal motivation to do something about the condition of your life.

            2.  You are allowing technological advancements to control a part of your life

            3.   You are putting your trust and faith in a computer chip, instead of God 

       After accepting this kind of computer chip in your body, where does it stop?  Why not have a chip that reminds you of all you appointments?  What about one that tells you what decisions you should make?  If it is technologically possible to block signals in your body with a remote controlled chip, why not send message to your body the same way.  

    In 2002 Focus on the Family released an Adventures in Odyssey series called "Battle Lines" .   

You could say they were ahead of their time.  In this series you hear of how a broadcasting company uses radio signals to control what people are thinking and buying.  The product they create in order to achieve this is marketed as something good that will help people with their memory and schooling. "Battle Lines" is entertaining yet thought provoking. 

      In Proverbs 3:5-6 we read, "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.  In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths"(ESV).  Putting our trust in anything but God and trusting in our own judgments, only leads to disappointment and destruction. Not all technological advancements are bad, but how are you using them?  When life struggles come, are you trusting God or a computer chip?