If you're reading this, you have internet and email access.
Both wonderful inventions when used as intended, both irritating nuisances when
abused by those with unsavory intent. Why some people delight in making other
people's lives miserable by interjecting themselves and meanness by sending out
viruses, worms and spam through unsuspecting internet users is beyond me. They
obviously have more time on their hands than they do common decency.
I continue to receive a spam email from Jen, no fault of hers,
just an example of an email account being hijacked. Change your password, Jen….throw a monkey wrench in the hijackers
work! We've all had this happen at least once and it is frustrating! I was
thinking she needed to change her password as I deleted the email yet again when
the holy tap on my shoulder came. "Change the password"…Lord, is that
your message?
Our passwords online are suppose to protect us and give us
some semblance of privacy...HA! Any hacker worth his salt can crack into our
information any time the mood strikes. We can be surfing along and BAM! Our
private lives and information are accessible to the heinous villain looking for
a place to insert his dastardly deed. There will always be those roaming about
looking to kill, steal, and destroy. Sounds familiar, huh! Our internet world
is not exempt from the evil that lives and thrives on this earth.
In our spiritual lives we can fall victim to corruption and
sin just as easily when our decision making process is hijacked, too. Do not
make the mistake of thinking you are above that! 1 Corinthians 10:12 (Amp) Therefore let
anyone who thinks he stands [who feels sure that he has a steadfast mind and is
standing firm], take heed lest he fall [into sin]. Scripture tells
us we are not to think we are above, too spiritual or too churched to think we
are above the same temptations that everyone else faces. Verse 13 goes on to
tell us we are not in this fight alone. God has given us the ability to face
temptations and sins.
13 For no temptation (no trial regarded as enticing to
sin), [no matter how it comes or where it leads] has overtaken you and laid
hold on you that is not common to man [that is, no temptation or trial has come
to you that is beyond human resistance and that is not adjusted and adapted and
belonging to human experience, and such as man can bear]. But God is faithful
[to His Word and to His compassionate nature], and He [can be trusted] not to
let you be tempted and tried and assayed beyond your ability and strength of
resistance and power to endure, but with the temptation He will [always] also
provide the way out (the means of escape to a landing place), that you may be
capable and strong and powerful to bear up under it patiently.
It looks clear to me,
the viruses and worms of the world will always bet here but we have the best
protection and security there is when we change
our personal password to Jesus!
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