01000111 01110010 01100101 01100001 01110100 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01001100 01101111 01110010 01100100 00101100 00100000 01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01101000 01101001 01100111 01101000 01101100 01111001 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01100010 01100101 00100000 01110000 01110010 01100001 01101001 01110011 01100101 01100100 00101100
What’s with the zeroes and ones? It is binary code. The paragraph translated means, “Great is the Lord, and highly to be praised” (Psalm 145:3).
That’s our God!
Everything that your computer does – the programs, the videos, the music, even Pastor Grant’s Interruption this morning – is binary code. Zeroes and ones.
Obviously, writing programs in “ones and zeroes” would take a lifetime, so there are programming languages like Java. They have the gift of prophecy and interpretation, writing millions of “zeros and ones” in seconds, so that when Captain Jean-Luc Picard says on Star Trek, “Make it so”…
I can now type on my computer.
Before you get lost, and admittedly I am already, consider that all computers are just electronic switches called transistors – off and on – with the zero being “off” and the one being “on,” sending electrical signals by the millions enabling your e-mails and texts.
A guy named Tegmark thought, and people still believe, that everything is mathematical. That mathematics exists not in theory but actual physical existence. We, humans, are the Java language of the universe being able to interpret math into things like sight and sound and, unfortunately, disco music.
I failed algebra in high school. I found that the “zeroes and ones” circuitry in my brain was better used in social situations. I have never been accomplished in math so why do I think about binary code today?
When I considered complex programs being nothing but simple “ones and zeros,” I then began thinking of an unlimited God not confined by binary code – a God who can write in triple-code or billion-code.
Wow!
Software engineers don’t progress beyond binary-code, but God does trillion-code before His first cup of coffee in the morning.
On earth we have binary-code and in heaven, we will see sights and hear sounds in quadrillion-code – colors that cannot be realized now and sounds that can’t be played on synthesizers. Sit down, Mozart, and be amazed.
After visiting the third heaven the Apostle Paul wrote:
01101000 01100101 01100001 01110010 01100100 00100000 01101001 01101110 01100101 01111000 01110000 01110010 01100101 01110011 01110011 01101001 01100010 01101100 01100101 00100000 01110111 01101111 01110010 01100100 01110011 00101100 00100000 01110111 01101000 01101001 01100011 01101000 00100000 01100001 00100000 01101101 01100001 01101110 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01101110 01101111 01110100 00100000 01110000 01100101 01110010 01101101 01101001 01110100 01110100 01100101 01100100 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01110011 01110000 01100101 01100001 01101011
Or in English: “heard inexpressible words, which a man is not permitted to speak” (2 Corinthians 12:4)
For those who know Jesus on earth, in heaven we will experience time travel, have warp-speed Tesla cars, and live with quintillion-dimensional reality. Our three-dimensional earthly existence is just a warm-up from a great God.
God has eternity to reveal all His sextillion-code “zeroes and ones,” and in billions of years, we will comprehend just a fraction of it all. Our God is unlimited. All of us will be tech wizards in heaven.
01001001 00100000 01110111 01101001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01100110 01101001 01101110 01100001 01101100 01101100 01111001 00100000 01100111 01100101 01110100 00100000 01100001 01101110 00100000 01000001 00100000 01101001 01101110 00100000 01000001 01101100 01100111 01100101 01100010 01110010 01100001
Which means, “I will finally get an A in Algebra!”