What’s your Default Setting?

What’s your default setting?

On a computer, or smart phone, the default setting is what comes stock.  It’s what is in the basic make-up of the website or software, aka factory preset.

Our human default setting is our human nature, our preset ways of thinking and doing things based on our upbringing and just who we are.  You might not like hearing this, but  our preset way of thinking and acting is so NOT GOOD that God sent Jesus to earth to save us! He had to SAVE US from our default settings.

Jesus gave us His very own Spirit so that we could move away from our default settings into God’s purpose for our day.

My son, Mosely, came up to me to tell on Wally.

“Mom, Wally said I’m weird.”

Community Pool

The world often teaches us to repay evil with evil, or an eye for an eye. But God tells us to “pay them back with a blessing…and to not repay evil with evil [or] retaliate with insults when people insult you“ (1Peter 3:9).

I try to teach my boys how to talk to and treat people respectfully in all situations. Do I model it well? Not always. I sometimes fall short of being a good role model. This is when I pray for God’s redemptive power.

Over the summer I took my boys to the community swimming pool at their father’s apartment complex.  After seeing other kids playing with their water guns in the pool, the boys wanted us to go get theirs too. My oldest, Ian, asked to stay behind while my youngest and I head back to the apartment. Though the walk to their Dad’s place wasn’t far, I still asked Ian to get out of the pool until we return. Nearly 11 years old, I felt comfortable with him staying at the gated pool, with other people around.