On April 8 Microsoft Windows will cease supporting its XP operating system. The reason they are giving is they can no longer keep it secure. There are bad guys out there creating computer viruses that can use the XP operating system to access your computer and do major damage to your precious pictures, financial records and other work files. The message they are broadcasting is “Do not continue using or you will be sorry.”
3,500 years ago God via Moses sent us some important security information. He told us not to kill, not to steal, not to tell bad stories about our neighbors and other important warnings. The message was if you do these things you will be sorry. Unfortunately Satan jumped in telling us that if we did these things God will be furious with us and severely punish us. That is just not so. That is like telling us if we continue to use XP after April 8, Microsoft will send infectious software to wreck our computers. Obviously that is not so. What Microsoft is saying is there will be consequences to our continued use, but not caused by them. God is saying to us there will be ruinous consequences to certain behaviors, not because He is punishing us, but because the ruinous consequences will be the natural results of doing these forbidden things. They are forbidden because He doesn’t want us to be hurt. He is a parent telling his children not to play baseball in the middle of an interstate highway.
Smart people will upgrade their computers, or replace them, with newer systems. Smart people will not steal, not kill or not covet because they are smart. Be smart listen to the experts. God is the expert on human behavior.
Written by Roger Bothwell on March 31, 2014
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