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Computers are a bit like people. With our five senses, we receive input from the world around us. Then with our minds, we analyze this input, decide how we will respond, and store our decision and response in our memory. Similarly, a computer receives input through its keyboard and mouse.
Then it processes this data and displays its response on a monitor, all the while recording its response in the “memory” of its hard drive. In fact, a computer’s hard-drive memory is an essential component. Even the fastest processor would be severely limited if the data storage capacity was too small or became corrupted.
Just as a computer’s memory is vital, so too is our memory vital to the way we think, choose, and act. Our memory holds all kinds of information—good and bad, happy and sad, helpful and useless past experiences—which we draw on each day. Learning how our memory works, how it filters and reacts to the issues of life each day, is particularly important if we want to be transformed and renewed by the Holy Spirit.
God wants to change and renew the way we…
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