I sat down at the computer tonight to check my e-mails, and realized it had been a few days since I had updated my virus protection. So I decided to download the recent updates and then do a complete scan of the system. Fortunately, the scan turned up only one low-level threat; someone was trying to attach a tracking cookie. But I have noticed that, ever since I started posting things on this blog, that the number of attempts to attack the computer has soared. To date, fortunately, no viruses have gotten through the defenses. We have, though, started receiving e-mail messages from folks we’ve never heard of, and we dump them out of hand. Hope we’ve not offended anyone, but we don’t want our hard drive corrupted.
Have you noticed how similar the situation with the need for protection of the computer and its hard drive is to the necessity to protect the mind? We have to be so vigilant against Satan’s attempts to get thoughts, ideas, pictures, his viruses into our system. He is so adept at hiding his evil in such innocent looking packages – just like the computer viruses hidden in apparently innocent attachments to e-mails.
Just like there are security programs to protect computers, there is a “program” to protect our minds. Also, there are programs and methods available to clean up the hard-drive if it becomes infected. Again, there is the counterpart for our minds (truth be told, the Apostle Paul points out that we “come off the shelf” already infected: we are all sinful by nature). But the “programs” intended to keep us cleansed of the sin virus are of no value if they are not updated systematically and applied to the hardware (our minds) consistently.
May your day be free of sin-viruses and attempts to hack into your minds. I so look forward to that day when the Lord will eliminate the source of such things.
Dr. G
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