The world thinks:

*Get rich quick.  How do I get what I want now?     * I don’t want to fulfill my contract.  If I don’t like it, I should quit or renegotiate.   * I don’t want to follow-through on my word.   * I don’t want to get married.  Let’s just have sex.

Today many people can’t follow-through. Often times that is why they are wracked with failure .  You and I are supposed to be different and follow God’s plan.  Part of that plan is long-term thinking and long-term follow-through.

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...we must be willing to change

Throughout the book of Proverbs, the words reproof, reprove, rebuke, correct and teach show us that to have the wisdom, and the ways of God, we must be willing to change.  Renewing our mind is more than just learning, and change is more than just gaining new insight or information.  The process of change has as much to do with “taking off” as it does “putting on.”  It is as much about subtracting, as it is about adding.  In Eph. 4:22-24 Paul says, “that we put off, concerning our former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of our minds, and that we put on the new man which was created according to God, in righteousness and holiness.” God uses the “taking off” and “putting on” principle throughout the New Testament.  In the process of renewing our minds, we have to realize that there are as many thoughts that must be taken off as there are that must be put on.  It is possible to learn many good things, but also possible to never take off the things or thoughts that keep us from success.

Have we gotten to a place where our motivation is so self-centered that we’re not moved with COMPASSION at all? (Image Credit: Flickr nivas58)

Often times in the church when there is the promise of personal gain, the amount goes up.  But when we are ask to give to missions, or the poor or the needs of humanity its not as much.  This isn’t to be critical.  Its just saying we generally get more motivated for personal gain than anything else.   We may need to stop and examine our motivation, because its normal to be more attentive to and more involved with that which is close to us.  But have we gotten to a place where our motivation is so self-centered that we’re not moved with COMPASSION at all?  Are we moved only when there is personal gain?  I remember reading a book where the author said, that Jesus only did miracles and healed people to prove his deity (that he was God).  And now they don’t happened anymore cause his deity was established.  I was offended by the thought that God would use hurting people to prove who He was, that God didn’t really care about sick people.  Jesus didn’t need hurting people to prove He was God.  Jesus did miracles because He was moved with COMPASSION.   He healed, taught truth, prayed for labors to help with the harvest all because he was moved with compassion.  That’s what motivated Jesus–COMPASSION!  What is our motivation with God and others today?

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... the Bible does not say that life is a pie. Its says life is a river. You can drink as much as you want. God is infinite. he's not going to run dry. There's more than enough for all of us to get everything we need and want.

As disciples of Christ, we must become “people” people.  We are to care about people, to relate to people and to live for people.  We’re not envious or jealous and we’re not picking on each other.  We’re not competing with each other.  We’re not gossiping about each other.  Rather, we’re helping each other achieve God’s best.  Many Christians are frustrated because they have the “pie mentality” of life, meaning, “I’ve got to have the biggest slice before you get part of the pie.  When I see you eating a big slice, I get mad because it means I get a smaller slice of the pie.”  But the Bible does not say that life is a pie.  Its says life is a river.  You can drink as much as you want.  God is infinite.  he’s not going to run dry.  There’s more than enough for all of us to get everything we need and want.  I don’t have to worry about you getting too much, because we can all get as much as we want.  The point is, embrace the people you meet.  Love God and love all His Kids.  When you meet a negative person, be kind and move on.  Never let a closed, bitter, or small attitude keep you from people.  If we can’t love people, we can’t love God.

You can watch the full news story on YouTube by clicking on the link – http://youtu.be/98Nc4ktrOe0 – or watching the video after the break:

But basically, Tabnabbing is when your browsing the web and you come across an article or site that looks interesting and you right click on it to open it in a new tab. After the new tab opens, you switch back to finish the original article before moving onto the next. Once back on the original articles tab, the one that you just open changes to the look of the screen to your email or facebook login page, tricking you into thinking you’re logging into your email or facebook. You then enter in your username and password and the site redirects you to the real page you’d normally log into, all the while collecting your email and password.

The video points out two things you can do to protect you and your family:
Check the url of the page before you log in – if it’s facebook.com, make sure it’s facebook.com and not something like http://192.168.0.1/
Use different passwords for different sites. Now this is a pain in the neck for people to remember, so one thing I use (and the video recommends) is to use a password manager. Two really good ones that have worked well for me is KeePass ( http://keepass.info/ ) & LastPass ( http://lastpass.com/ ) – both of which have pros and cons
At the end of the day, you’ll save yourself and your family a lot of headaches and termoil by following these two simple steps.

Hope this helps & God Bless
-Tim S.

P.S. Of the thousands that walked by…only 30 and a half smiles!:)