Here are some?insights from Kosuke Koyama?s book Three Mile An Hour God. ?I think you?ll appreciate what he has to say here about the real costs of technology and the real value of human relationships:
?Our technological resourcefulness is making our life expensive and lonely. Technology is ambiguous. It can enrich and impoverish our life. Technology is like fire; it can cook rice for our enjoyment and nutrition and it can also reduce our house to ashes.
Can we bring about an inexpensive yet resourceful life style? One way?perhaps the only way?to do this would be to cultivate, increase and deepen human relationship. Human relationship is inexpensive yet resourceful. This is grace indeed. The biblical God is the God of a covenant relationship with man. This means that the whole biblical teaching is rooted in relationship. Money has ultimate meaning only if it enhances human relationship. The salvation the Bible is talking about is ?inexpensive yet resourceful?. If salvation is expensive in terms of hard-cash, then something is wrong with that kind of salvation.? (p. 121.)
?For Peter ?I have no silver and gold? means ?I always look at silver and gold under the overwhelming sense of gratitude to God?. Or ?what God has provided is abundant for me. I have no need for more. And I say this joyously?. This is the apostolic secret. ?I have no silver and gold? he said. Yet he healed the man. The secret of Peter is ?gratitude? and ?Jesus?. These two combined bring healing, hope and resurrection.? (p. 141.)
