“For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. “
Romans 8:18
Well, I suppose an introduction is in order. I should probably let anyone who might happen upon this website know who I am and what this website is about.
Introduction
Apple Picking 2008
My name is Devin Adint and what I am is yet to be revealed but what I aspire to be I am still plugging away at under the direction of my Lord and Savior; Jesus Christ. Currently, life for the past twelve years has placed me in the area of technology fulfilling roles in System Administration and Architecture. But, I have always had many interests; technology, science, philosophy, theology, politics, history, etc… So you should expect my posts to be somewhat eclectic.
Over the past decade and a half much has gone on in my life.
“Let me esplain…..no, there is too much. Let me sum up” – Inigo, Princes Bride…
I grew up on the south side of Chicago and went to Luther High School South where I graduated as valedictorian in 1991. I then went on to Judson College where I started out on a two year pre-engineering degree. My goal was to get a degree in engineering, maybe join the Air Force and then join Mission Aviation. But God had other ideas and my degree changed to Computer Science. After I left Judson I started working for Pepsi as a network and Unix Administrator. I got married September 7th, 1996 to Cynthia Ortiz, we meet in speech class at Judson and it has been a wonderful 12 years of marriage. We started attending Windy City Community church and made quite a few new friends. I left Pepsi about four years later and started working for ABN AMRO as a System Administrator and Performance Manager. At the same time we bought our first house in Des Plaines. We had our first child Nolan in 2002 after three years of much difficulty. Then in 2004 we moved into our second house and had our second child, Rayna. We started looking for a new church and attended Willow Creek and then Harvest for a while. I was then outsourced in 2005 to IBM and am now working for IBM as a Storage Technical Lead, Component Architect. I have about a dozen storage analysts working under my direction at this time. The account I am working on is winding down and I am looking to move into a storage architect role. In 2007 we had our third child, Micah and we moved to Park Ridge. We are now attending South Park Church as it is just down the block. I started a mens bible study on Tough Questions in May 2008 which seemed to go well.
The account I was supporting was bought by several banks and I moved to supporting Bank of America in 2008 and then Royal Bank of Scotland in 2009. In 2009 my storage team was merged with about a dozen other account for which I became the technical lead. I then moved from storage to Systems Architecture and started supporting The Hartford account at the end of 2009 when storage support was being restructured and centralized. I have continued to be involved with the Iron Men men’s group and my wife has been involved with Mothers of Preschoolers, MOPS at South Park.
(I suppose I will keep updating this as life goes on…)
Purpose
Over these past several years I have spent time meditating on God’s word as well as re-evaluating and re-strengthening what I believe. Various circumstances and teachings I have come across have pushed me to look into the past. When I ran across the Free Grace vs the Lordship Salvation doctrine I decided to see what the early church believed and taught about salvation and grace. I read epistles and writings of the early church fathers. I spent time studying the attributes of God and their classical definitions. Books like “Knowing God” by J I Packer and “Knowledge of the Holy” by A W Tozer along with other works like “True Spirituality” and “The God Who is There” by Francis Schaeffer. What has become most amazing and compelling is the depth of God. I learned that we were created with a need to expand to grow and have a need for wonder that grinds us down if we try to find this here on earth but brings us higher when we realize that this appetite will only be met by God. The challenges we meet in life are designed by God to help us grow and to point us to Him. The consequences as well point us back to God by communicating the deficiency in this world and the stuff of this world.
16 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day. 17 For this slight momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, 18 as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. – 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
This website exists as a platform to more deeply explore God; who He is, what He is about and how He relates to His creation. To explore God’s revelation to His creation; the Bible and to find our needs met in the words of God. To look to Christ as the bread of life and waters that never fail and to drink and eat the words of God so that they permeate our thoughts and transform our heart.
