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H.
Roger Bothwell
The Power of
Knowing
Just when you think you have
a mental handle on computer terminology along comes
something new to fill one with wonder. It was not long ago
that the idea of having a computer with one gigabyte of
memory made one thinks it was the ultimate machine. Today I
read about a computer with a petabyte of memory.
Let me try to put that into
perspective. A petabyte is one million gigabytes. It is the
equivalent of 250 billion pages of text or 20 million
four-drawer filing cabinets or 500 million high-density
floppy disks or 1.7 million CD-ROMs or 83,000 movies.
This information came to me
the same week that I read that IBM has a new copper chip
that runs three times faster than 300 megahertz machines
which is what most of us wish we had. Well we don’t
wish that any longer, the dream has changed.
The idea of controlling and
having at one’s finger tips that much speed and that
much information changes the whole male concept of power. It
used to be cars. Most of us grew up in a nation of car
lovers. Real power is now being redefined in terms of
information control.
Power has always intrigued
both men and women. Perhaps it is because we were made in
God’s image and one of the most important aspects of
God is that He is all-powerful. There is nothing His mighty
mind cannot accomplish because knowledge is power and He
knows everything.
Knowing is the key to a
brighter tomorrow. Every time we learn something new we
become more powerful. We are able to use that knowledge to
control our environment to make it work for us.
Loving God opens up the
doors of heaven to us. Loving God means participating in
that divine nature. Loving God means our character become so
much like Him He can trust us with understanding, knowledge
and thus power. What a wonderful thing it is to be a child
of the Most High and share with Him all the wonders of the
universe.
I'm
Roger Bothwell and my address is hrb1@tiac.net
or 151 Old Farm Rd. Leominster, MA 01453. Thank you for your
support of our faith ministry.
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