Sunday, May 24, 2009

Forever the same

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. (Hebrews 13:8)

Bill Irwin, a person who is blind, has a talking computer he uses to study the Bible. He's had a few chuckles over some of the pronunciations. "For a long time," Bill says, "the computer pronounced Holy Bible as 'holly bibble' until I figured out how to modify it."

But there was one thing Bill couldn't change. The computer uses the Spanish pronunciation for Jesus Christ. . . . . "The programmer is Hispanic," Bill told me with a smile, "and he made that HEYsus Krist cannot be altered."

I like that. It reminds me that among the things in life that can be changed to suit my taste, one remains tamper-resistant--I can't change Jesus.