IT Systems

Read Isaiah 64:8

Think of the creation of the world in terms of the end result. For example, God created a bird and a whale, but He also created the components of life that make those creatures possible. He created chemicals and organic materials and assembled systems that use these basic building blocks to create life. Thinking about our verse in Isaiah 64:8, God not only made the pot, but He made the clay from which the pot is made. In other words, God created the component parts of the system not just the resulting system. 

Perhaps the foundational components are the most important parts of creation because they must behave and interact in a very reliable way for the systems that depend on them to work consistently. Think about a world where sometimes a metal such as iron was hard and could support weight and other times it could collapse under the weight of a feather. What if certain metals could not be counted on to conduct electricity. Without these basic components and their consistent behavior, workers could not assemble those components to create systems such as computers. If metals did not behave in a predictable fashion, there could be no transistors, and without transistors, CPUs could not be built. 

God is the giver of all things from the basic elements and natural laws He put in place to the resulting systems we see in nature. We can build nothing without depending on God to provide the basic elements we rearranged and fashioned to create computer systems. We are creators, similar to God in our desire to create because we are image bearers of God, but we create by arranging and utilizing the materials and natural laws that God gave in the first place. We use the materials God has created to create components such as circuit boards and computer memory, etc. that are then assembled into larger components such as servers and network switches which are then assembled to make up IT systems upon which our organizations operate. It is all built by using the materials God created. We also mimic God’s creativity in that we too make components and assemble them to make systems.