When carrying out some rather widespread and deep website building work, Nathan and I ran across a really odd problem to have! Because, every time we loaded one video, another one kept on displaying instead.
After something of a panic, since it seemed to affect every video we had been working on, I thought about clearing the cache - for our internet browser.
If you’re more computer savvy than me (not very hard) then sorry for the following explanation:
The cache is much like the memory for your internet browser. When you visit a website and see a picture, the cache remembers that image and displays it for you, to save you data and time, without bothering to go and look to see if the latest image matches what it thought was there.
Our browser had simply remembered something we just were no longer using, and kept showing that instead. Clearing the cache made it look at the website, and display, in our case, the correct video.
And hence my somewhat concerned thoughts as to how I’d managed to break the internet from my little studio in the UK!
In our lives, as Christians, we can often get stuck remembering what used to be, and it inhibits our ability to move forwards in our relationship with Jesus Christ. It’s like walking forward towards a lamp post, while remembering back to a time when there was no lamppost. What you remember is quite irrelevant, as will become rapidly apparent as you meet the lamppost, and it’s best mate, gravity, and it’s brother in arms – pride!
What is, may be. But what was, may not be anymore! This is why wiping that cache is so important on your internet browser.
The bible tells us to daily renew our minds – that’s akin to wiping the cache for your internet browser each time you open it up to surf the internet. That way, you’ll only see what is currently true, and what be stuck on what used to be.
When we clear the cache in our relationship with God we’re not deleting anything. We’re simply letting God show us the latest version of something that He wants us to see.
Just a thought…
Andy B
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