User Account Control: Allow or Deny?

Sooo, I meant to blog this back last week, but it slipped my mind. Anyways, on topic, it really amuses me sometimes how God will use the least little thing to make us think, and a lot of times will use something we really don't like. Warning: I am a geek... if you know me, you know that already. Back to story... I've been using Windows Vista at work for about 6 months now, and if you've used Vista before, you know about this annoying little window that pops up almost every time you try to do something called the User Account Control. If you haven't used Vista, what it does is, anytime you perform an action that makes any sort of changes to your computer, it asks you if you really meant to do it, and you have to click on either allow or deny. Long story short there.... I turned it off. A lot of the stuff I do is all stuff that is flagged by it. Jump to last week, and I installed the new Windows 7 on my laptop... lo and behold, it came with (albeit a somewhat more lenient version) of the UAC. I decided, since it's still basically in testing, I'd leave it on and just deal with it. Enter God and his amazing (and sometimes amusing) way of making us think. So, I'm taking the Freedom in Christ classes, and one of the things we talked about was taking captive every thought. My mind wanders a bit, and it's been really hard for me to keep focused on things I should be focused on, just due to my natural randomness. So, I'm clicking through some stuff on my computer, and I have this thought that was completely off the wall... I mean, not something I would have normally thought on my own, and roughly at the same time, I get the blasted UAC warning... Then God speaks (not verbatim ;-) ) "Your brain is attempting to process a thought that is not of heavenly origin, Allow or Deny?" Completely threw me off guard... I always here about how our brains are like these supercomputers, but it never really seriously occured to me that we *do* have control over whether or not, and how our brain will process any given thought... Add on top of that the fact that our words have power, and life and death are in our tongue... I start doing something that sounds really goofy... if I have a thought, and I know it's not from God, my mind kicks in it's UAC, and I verbally tell the thought it is denied access to finish processing itself... You know what... it works. I've had a lot of thoughts try and slip through that I normally would have just thought and (tried to) dismiss, but then they've left their mark on my mind. Now I just deny them as soon as I realize they are there... Resist the devil, and he will flee... Take control over your mind. Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks, but (in my experience) the mind likes to bully the heart around... The heart doesn't become bitter, the mind does... the heart still wants to love, but the mind says 'no'. That's why we need to renew our minds daily. If not, the mind will poison the rest of the body and drag it down. Soooooo... anyways, that turned into a whole lot more than what I intended, but as always, I hope it means something to someone out there. God bless :-)

Love you all,
Eric