Jun 28
Software you can eat!
This morning, while eating a slice of watermelon, I had an epiphany. It seems to happen more with watermelon than any other fruit.
This wonderful fruit that I am eating grew from a seed. Everyone knows that. However, it is worth a little more consideration.
A seed is essentially a little package of software. The shell is comparable to the CD/DVD etc. that carries the software. As we insert the disk into our computer, so we put the seed into the ground.
Just as computer software will not be installed until triggered, so the program inside the seed’s shell remains unused and undiscovered until the heat and moisture of the soil crack open the hard shell. When that happens, the program inside the seed begins the installation process.
Once installed, computer software’s programming begins to interact with the operating system. Likewise the seed’s program, once the shell is cracked, begins to draw nutrients and moisture from the soil.
After software loads on our computers, it waits to take our input, energy and thought and convert them into something more useful (a design, a painting, a document, a chart, etc). The seed’s plant breaks through the soil into the sunlight and begins to convert energy from the sun and into matter! The particular program that I enjoyed this morning (watermelon seed) converted the sun’s energy into an intricate, fleshy, sponge-like web that absorbed up this very sweet tasting water until it was completely saturated!
Software is usually valued by two primary factors: what it does and how easy it is to use. When we witness the amazing things that a good piece of software will do, we indirectly honor the programmers who created the software by buying the software. The easier it is to use, the more people that will honor the programmers by buying the software.
How delicious and nutritious are the edible “documents” that the Great Programmer’s software produces every day, year after year! How difficult would it be to make the same things without His incredible programming and special, protective packaging? How easy is it to both install and use the Great Programmers innumerable software programs (seeds)?
Yet He offers them at such a deeply discounted price!
We would surely question someone who regularly used great software on their computer yet concluded that this particular configuration of electrons just happened by random chance; that no programmers were involved. Yet, everyday untold numbers of people partake of God’s brilliance and goodness and conclude that He does not exist.
The next time that you are in the company of such a person, share a great piece of fruit with them!