Connected

Every person who has a computer knows about Spyware Doctor or Spybot. They are two of many programs which check your computer for unwanted intrusions. These intruders can “corrupt” your computer, slow it down or totally disrupt its proper functioning processes. I will list a couple of things that cause problems. Tracking cookies, Advertising, Known bad sites, and Comet cursors are all unwanted additions our computer can do without. There are many more and most anti-virus programs take care of most if not all.
Computers, when they are going right and working perfectly can be fun and exciting. They are part of our lives now and there is no turning back. There is so much you can do and learn from them. It doesn’t matter how old or young you are. Works perfectly and we love it especially when we are ‘connected’.
We are also encouraged but everyone out there to not open any attachment or address we do not know something about. My computer always warns me of problems. It will ask if either I really want to go there or it may inquire with a warning, recommended or not recommended. If you want to say it this way, “I am very lucky I have not had any serious problems yet.” Computer wiz kids state that the operative word is “Yet.”
Somewhere out there, someone is concocting a virus to cripple, maim, or destroy our computers. I wonder who these people are. Don’t they have anything better to do? Do they make money at doing this or are they just malicious people who want to hurt someone somewhere? Why can’t they take all their knowledge and skills and do something to build up the computer domain?
So many questions and so many unknowns.
But we have the same thing in our spiritual lives don’t we? We want to have a wonderful spiritual life and connection to God. It energizes us and enables us when the connection to God is great and wonderful and exciting. And here goes that famous word again, but things get in the way. Life gets in the way, other people get in the way and Satan gets in the way. Speaking of Satan, he wants to disconnect us from God. He wants to injury or disable our faith. He doesn’t want us talking to God, reading about God, i.e., bible. Just like Jesus in the desert, Satan does this by asking us simple questions. Wouldn’t you like to be on the golf course instead of in church? Why read the words of Exodus when you can watch The Ten Commandments? Why pray to God, after all doesn’t the bible say He already knows what we are going to ask before it is on our lips? He doesn’t listen does He? The more of these “viruses” we have the more we move away from God and the slower we function the way God intends us to. God does have a purpose for each of our lives and that purpose only comes to fulfillment when we are connected to God.
This last week someone sent me an email with Mary Had a Little Lamb. It concluded that the Lamb of God cannot come to school anymore. Take a moment and think about this child’s rhyme. Put into it all that things you know and believe about Mary, the Lamb of God and us the children. God in Christ came to be part of all of our lives and all of our life. If we eliminate Him from one part of our life it won’t be long until He is gone from most parts of our life. If 80 percent of Canadians believe in God, why don’t we see the connection to Him? While we are on the subject, why do the 80 Percent sit idly by and let the 20 percent tell us what to do?
Two last question. How well are you connected and how well are you protected against sin?
I’ll tackle scams another time.
Rob