© 2013 by Tom Boynton (editing by Kathy Boynton)

Imagine yourself as an engineering genius who has designed a pair of computerized machines which look and act exactly like human beings. You have named one machine “X” and the other “Y.” Through an ingenious docking process, you have given these two machines the ability to replicate themselves and their embedded programming. You have built these machines to serve you and enjoy your presence, and have provided all the resources needed to keep them operating in a wholesome manner. At first, these humanoids interacted with you in the manner intended. But then, an evil hacker found a way to bypass your humanoids’ security systems and introduced a deadly piece of programming code which destroyed their allegiance to you. They became slaves to the commands of the hacker rather than your own. This deadly programming code has now been passed on to thousands of their humanoid replicas and they all now act in a very unfriendly manner toward you. They oppose you and destroy each other at every possible opportunity.

As the designer, what is your attitude toward the hacker and your perverted humanoids? It is, obviously, your inviolable right, and responsibility, to restrain, and even destroy, your useless and malicious property. Have you ever discarded a computer, cell phone, tablet, or iPod, that became so infected with a virus that it no longer served its intended purpose?

God is the designer and creator of the human race. Satan is like the evil hacker that infected the heart of mankind with evil attitudes toward his creator. If nothing changes, you, as an infected creation, have no hope. You have no right to demand mercy or kindness from God. You are serving your master the Devil on a perpetual treadmill to ultimate eternal destruction.

There is good news, however. God sent His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, to pay for the removal of the infected code of sin in your heart. This required a priceless blood sacrifice. One day a wicked publican (tax collector) cried out to God: “God be merciful to me a sinner” (Luke 18:13). Jesus indicated that God heard him, saved him, and justified him.

Will you, as did the publican, heed the invitation of Jesus Christ the Savior who says, “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28)?

 

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