Our brains are like computers. Our running systems must be on the right track to run properly—on our computers and in our brains!
I spend much of my day in front of my computer. For the past 5-6 years (or more), I have worked as a virtual assistant, primarily supporting CSL churches with their websites, social media, and online marketing. As you can imagine, having a smoothly running computer is critical for me.
Early this week, I noticed that things were not working well. Programs were running slowly, documents wouldn’t open correctly, and
my frustration was rising!
Doing what I could to figure it out, I finally contacted my son, who is a whiz at computers, for help. Of course, he is not local, so we did all the diagnosing via text messages. He made several suggestions before he finally asked me to send him screenshots of my running programs.
Ah, we found I had a weird antivirus running in the background, sending me warnings and hogging a lot of my system resources! At first, I didn’t think much of it. I just deleted the program. But then I started thinking: Antivirus software is supposed to detect viruses that affect my computer’s operation! What a counter-productive software (at least in this case).
So how does this affect everyday life?
Our minds are a bit like the workings of a computer. Everything works well until a counterproductive ‘invader’ enters our thinking.
I had a meeting last week that I was apprehensive about. What would come of this meeting based on the input I had received about it? What if things did work out the way I wanted? What if I found I could not do what needed to be done during the meeting? Why couldn’t so-and-so work better with me? It wasn’t until my husband pointed out that my thinking pattern wasn’t helping me that I realized what I was doing: I had let counterproductive software into my brain and was letting it run my thinking program!
Of course, I stopped talking, went back into my office, and prayed for peace, calm, and a perfect outcome. In other words, I deleted the faulty programming I was running.
It all seems so simple and obvious now, but at the time, I couldn’t correct my thinking path until I got rid of my old, unproductive thoughts. And then I wondered how many times I had done that before.
As it turned out, my meeting went smoothly. Of course, because of my prayers, my inner running system was working at top efficiency!