Googling It.

Following in the direction of my last two posts, I feel really encouraged to talk about the idea of instant gratification. I'm currently doing a paper on "Google Management: How To Be Creative and Still Be Productive" and I came across this statement on Google's website, "Google believes in instant gratification. You want answers and you want them right now. Who are we to argue?" (http://www.google.com/corporate/tenthings.html) Something about this strikes me as wrong.

For a situation like this, it seems best to turn to mister reliable to help us with this dilemna. By this, I mean Mr. Wonka's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Many lessons can be learned from this movie, the most related one to this is Veruca Salt. She's a spoiled brat that probably has never heard the word 'no' in her life time. As they walk through the factory, they come onto special geese (or squirrels if you are into that new version). She starts off politely asking her dad for it with a little help by batting her eyes but things quickly turn ugly when her request gets rejected. She instantly goes into a trantrum singing (and screaming) "Don't care how; I want it NOW!" End result, she falls to the incinerator that might be turned off because it's trash day.

Instant gradification has been one of those sins that has kind of snuck up on us. It certainly makes our day "easier" by removing the tasks that seem boring. Heck, as soon as I was given this paper, my first thought was to Google some topic, whip up a three page paper in 40 minutes and be done with it. But just as Adam Sandler shows us in the movie "Click", if we try to zip past those things that bore us to death, we will have no appreciation for the things that are important to us. Beyond that, we are called by Christ to be "studious laborers in the vineyard" (Matthew 20:1-16) meaning even just picking the grapes off by hand is a job that God has ordained for you and I to do as praise and worship to God-the Lord.

So remember as you are trudging along in your homework, cleaning or whatever seems to bore you, keep in mind that you can do all things "to bring glory to His name" (1 Chronicles 16:29, Psalm 96:8).