For the past couple of days my computer has been giving me constant warning messages that it is infected with viruses and that I need to take immediate action. When I click on the icon to run the suggested program it runs through the files in my computer and shows how many infected files I have, but gives no course of action. When I click on their provided prompt buttons to do anything that looks useful, nothing happens. When I click on the highlighted names of the programs are displayed in the box, the names of the spyware systems that are (apparently) allerting me, it describes them as being "misleading applications that may give exaggerated reports of threats on the computer". Upon closer reading, the warning system itself appears to be the virus, or at the very least, a problem.

Now I'm not what you call computer literate and must admit that things like this tend to throw me off balance and just give me something more to worry about. I'm sure I need to do something about it, but I'm not sure what (ignoring it doesn't seem to be a good option).

How like life today in our culture; as we become more and more reliant, accepting or numb to the daily blasts of technology, advertising and encouragement to be open-minded and just accept everyone and everything as it is, we become desensitized to the little voice in our head, that spirit of discernment that the Lord has placed there for our protection. It becomes confusing in the noise of life to know if the little voice we are hearing is that spirit of discernment with the halo or the spirit of the world with the pointy tail. In other words, our warning systems become infected as we become more and more like the world around us and we can come to a point where we've "fallen to the bottom of a well thinking we've risen to the top of the mountain; what if we're knocking at the gates of hell thinking we're heaven bound." (lyrics from "Living Life Upside Down")

This is why we must be in His Word regularly, to have a real familiarity with what He has told us...because He won't tell us something now that contradicts what He has shared with us there.

Praying that your internal warning system isn't a virus,

Brad