I think my sister-in-law found an ingenious application of a man's innerware.
Men are apparently wired to notice women, cute celebrity women at that, so why not join the game, give it a for-fun voice and create one less avenue for tension?
So that pertains to physical wiring; we can call that physical innerware.
Let's imagine that we run on spiritual innerware as well. This would be the wiring placed in us by something greater that calls us to consider how we can interact with that greater-than-ourselves power. When we are not in denial, we can easily agree that this wiring, this spiritual innerware, is one of our human driving forces.
Computer software gives us a model to consider. As a software developer and self-proclaimed computer geek, my son imagines an output--a computer operation--and assembles code to accomplish that operation.
I think God, with his self-proclaimed love-for-humans, imagined a spirit-level operation where we would be wired to love him but entirely free to resist that love, and assembled us to accomplish that love-chase operation.
He chases us with extraordinary love; we determine how we feel about that and respond according to our free will. I imagine this relationship as our spiritual innerware.
For me, God seems to offer one "love interest" at a time. Running somewhere in the background of my day, I am attuned to a facet of his love that he wants me to explore, consider, embrace, understand. He seems to present, like any good teacher, one theme (learning unit in teacher language) at a time through which to better understand his love operation.
Like any good software, my spiritual innerware needs upgrading. It needs time spent in new development, accountability with truth plumb lines (the bible, the Holy Spirit), and a bent toward maturity.
God is the spiritual innerware geek, we are the operation he created and pursues, and he presents himself (when we are listening) through one love theme at a time.
Now when have you heard God called a geek? He's my love interest of all time.
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