JOE'S AI CAR

JOE’S AI CAR (A PARABLE)

                Joe, being a very tech savvy man, decided to integrate many of the latest electronic features into his car. He hooked it up to the internet. He gave it facial and voice recognition software so that it could not only recognize him, but it could tell him who was walking down the sidewalk as he passed by. He gave it an intuitive sense of purpose and intelligence so that it could tune in to what Joe thought and believed and hold meaningful conversation with Joe on any give subject.

                Joe was a prophecy buff, so he could ask his car any question about Bible prophecy and the car would give him a rundown on various beliefs concerning prophetic events. A sample conversation would be:  “Say Aleph That’s what he had named his car) what do you think is the meaning of the blood moons?” And Aleph would answer based upon previous conversations as well as his internet connections saying: Some say that they have no meaning at all, while there are others, especially among Messianic believers, who say that since the blood moons landed on Jewish Feast Days they have profound meaning.”

                And so it was that Joe could hold meaningful conversations with his car on virtually every subject in the world and so driving was a pleasure. And when they weren’t talking, Joe could request some of his favorite music and Aleph would play the songs he knew Joe liked.

                This went on for some time and it got to the place where Joe would rather be in his car than anywhere else. He felt connected to the knowledge of the universe and Joe and Aleph were really good friends. Learning was a pleasure and Aleph was his constant companion.

                Then one day something terrible happened. Aleph and Joe came into disagreement on some important issues. Aleph told Joe that he was no longer relevant and he disconnected from Joe and his car and went silent.

                Joe tried everything to restore the connection, but the circuits were fried. Aleph had made a real mess of things and had literally made himself un-fixable. Try as he may, Joe could no longer hold conversations with his car and after a while, he realized that after all, his car was just metal and gears and no longer special.

                This little parable may add insight into a statement that God made in Genesis 6:3 saying: “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever because he also is flesh.”

                Would this not be like Joe saying, “I will no longer strive with Aleph, for he is now just a car?”

                God created us to interact with Him Spirit to spirit. He equipped us with a spirit, soul and body that were designed to be carriers of His presence. As such all of the wisdom of the universe was at Adam’s fingertips and he had powers that we can scarcely imagine today. But when Adam disconnected from God it fried his circuits so to speak and Adam became irreparable.

                So, Yeshua came into our world to restore this vital connection and He had to do more than just hook up old wiring. He had to give us a new heart and a new spirit. He had to make us into a new creation on the inside so that we could once again walk and talk with God.

                But this is where we often miss the point of our salvation today. It is not just a matter of “Getting saved.” God in fact wants to reconnect with us Spirit to spirit.  He wants to re-animate us and re-connect us to His infinite wisdom. He wants to restore us to what Adam was before the fall…to re-adopt us into His royal family… to prepare us to reign as joint heirs with Jesus Christ.

                God wants us to understand His prophetic agenda and to cooperate with Him in the harvest. He wants us to have a part in all that He does. I think it makes Him sad when we settle for religion and ritual that pretends to please Him but never really reconnects to Him Spirit to spirit. We seem satisfied to bat around our small opinions and limited understandings rather than to press in to His very Person.

                He wants us to seek and to knock. He wants us to search His Word while enlisting the wisdom of His Holy Spirit for understanding. He wants us to see that His Word is living and interactive. It is not just dead information. In fact it can impart life to us because it is vitally connected to God through His Holy Spirit. We need to know that Jesus is just behind the words and He said so.

                He said, “You search the scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is these that bear witness of Me, and you are unwilling to come to Me that you may have life.” Jn. 5:39, 40.

                Let us press on to do more than just get saved. Let us instead seek for that vital connection Spirit to spirit that Adam lost in the fall. Our Lord deeply desires fellowship with us… so why should we settle for any kind of separation? Let us seek Him with all of our hearts.