Our Default

Electronic devices these days come with settings known as default. Default settings are pre-set at the factories when they are made and are simply basic settings so that the devices will run. The devices operate just fine with those settings. Typically, the owner will, over time, change the settings to better adapt the devices to what the owner wants them to do—how they want them to act or perform. In other words, they customize the settings to suit their tastes. I’ve done that as well with all my devices.

We humans come with a default. Our default has been with us since we were born, just as it has with every person born since Adam and Eve’s decision to do their own thing in the Garden of Eden. It’s the sinful nature we each have within us—our brokenness.

Some of us live in default mode. Some have figured out, or learned, that that is not how God wants us to live so they begin to change their settings. God want us to live a holy and godly life. If our settings are changed, we can change. A few of those settings are how we think, speak, relate to others, act, and how we believe. The more we change those settings, the more godly and holy we become. Unfortunately, due to our nature as fallen humans, there are times that we go back into our default mode and sin.

Our default mode is Satan’s pleasure. Our settings are God’s way of providing us a way of denying him that pleasure. It’s our lifelong job to be aware of those settings and to keep adjusting them so as to continuously act and perform in a manner pleasing to Him.