Key Bible Verse: "The human heart is most deceitful and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?" (Jeremiah 17:9). Bonus Reading: Jeremiah 17:5-10

We've become co-dependent with the computer and the internet. They enable us to go where we want, without condemnation or comment. There will be no intervention, no "family meeting," where the computer is concerned. In fact, it's not concerned—about us or about what we do on it. It is just a machine. How we use it is totally up to us.

So what happens when we're unwilling or unable to regulate our own actions regarding the computer and the internet? What happens if this neutral technology becomes an increasingly negative influence in our lives?

Stories abound about predators who stalk the internet, searching to exploit, molest, and abuse the naïve. But information about the internet's more subtle effects is not so easy to come by.

There may be little hard information about the negative side for most users (a word that previously referred to drug addicts—a coincidence?). But while technology changes at a mind-numbing rate, human nature changes very little, and God changes not at all. The internet may be uncharted, but people and their reactions are not.

—Gregory Jantz in Hidden Dangers of the Internet

My Response: To assure that I'm a disciplined user and not an abuser of the internet, I should …

Adapted from Hidden Dangers of the Internet (Shaw, 1998) by permission.

Prayer for the Week

Your Word warns that the Devil's attacks aren't primarily physical. Keep me vigilant to skirmishes in the virtual realm.

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