CYBER CRIME

              Target stores recently revealed that cyber criminals had stolen information on millions of their customers. This information can enable the thieves to steal the identity of those whose information they have accessed. By stealing someone’s identity they can tap into their bank accounts or use their credit cards. In this age of on-line transactions, plastic card purchases, and cyber profiles which contain complete information about us, we enter a whole new world of theft.

I’ve sought to learn all the things we are advised to do in order to protect ourselves from identity theft and thereby protect our assets from this new generation of thieves. The truth, alas, is these cyber thieves will continue to work and will find new ways to steal. Even as safes, strong boxes and bank vaults could not eradicate theft in former generations, cyber theft, I fear, will not be eradicated.

Jesus gave us a formula for defeating the thieves.

“Sell what you have and give alms; provide yourselves money bags which do not grow old, a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches or moth destroys.” (Luke 12:32-34) But, someone may object, I still will not have my assets. Yes we will. We will have “a treasure in the heavens.” And in this world we will know where our treasure is invested, the people it has helped, and the continuing impact it will have for the Kingdom.

 

Grace and Peace