I was just trying to get on line with the local newspaper's website to check and see how much longer my subscription was paid. They have updated there web site, and it looks pretty spiffy. But I have a complaint. My old password, which is easy for me to remember, won't work anymore. They have updated their security, and passwords must now be 8-15 letters or numbers, must start with a capital letter, must have a least 3 letters, and cannot have any two characters repeated more then twice. So to get into my account for a Newspaper Subscription I have to create a new alphabet, it seems. I tried 20 or 30 times and I guess I was not fulfilling the requirements correctly, because it locked me out of the system. "Wait at least 1 hour and try again" it told me. So here is my question: If I have to have a password that I could never remember there by I have to write it down in a tablet next to the computer, and I may add, write every password for all my important web sites, you know like my e-mail don't want just anyone reading my emails to my daughter, they might think I am crazy or a threat to the US or something, but to keep them on a tablet right next to the computer. Doesn't this nullify the reason for having passwords? What is next, we will have to use math symbols? My Austin American Statesman subscription web access will be:; (^Ee1008#>+24c, sure that's easy to remember.
I was praying this morning, and you know what? God did not ask for a password. He didn't tell me that my password was incorrect and I had been blocked for my own security and would have to call a 1-800 number of His customer service department more then likely in India, and request a new password after verifying my identity. He knew exactly who I was as soon as I said "Good morning Lord........" He did not ask me questions like: "What is your pass code, or What is the name of your first girlfriend, or the name of the city you were born, or my personal favorite, Who was your first grade teacher, who remembers things like that??!! I understand security, since 9/11 no one can be too careful, but all I wanted was to see when I need to budget to make my next newspaper payment. Sorry, back to God. God does not need to see our drivers license or our birth certificate to know who we are, I mean He made us, we are His children. I was renewing my drivers license a few years ago and one of the clerks knew a lady that had came in to renew her license also and he still ask her for her to verify who she was, through 2 forms of ID. She had her expired license with her picture on it, he knew her personally, and she was digging through her purse trying to find a second form of ID, she said something like: "John, you KNOW it's me, why do I need to prove it to you?" He responded that he could get in trouble if he did not follow procedure.
Procedure, that is one of those words I hate. It seems it has taken the personal out of personal service.
But God still and always will be very personal with us. He knows everything about us, He will not ask us to prove we are who we say we are. He doesn't need DNA evidence,to know where we have been, what we have been doing, or what we are doing next. He doesn't
need "2 forms of ID" to verify I am Christopher David Calvin and my account number is 334344554454322-2002003099929999999999999887e77377, in fact I do not have an account number with God, He just knows ME>
Well, I am going to call customer service at my newspapers office now, hopefully someone will be there who speaks English
well enough to understand, and I can verify who I am, so that I can pay them for all their trouble, and thank them for keeping me safe from all the people who want to find out how much I pay a month for a subscription to their newspaper.
Thank you Lord, for being so personal to each and every one of us. Thank you that you KNOW us so well, that you don't need us to remind or verify who we are each time we come to you. Help us realize You want us to approach you more because You really do care about us, that "We (REALLY) are important to you" and this is NOT just a line to keep us waiting on hold.
So the next time your hurrying to try to remember your first girlfriends fathers first car make and model, remember God doesn't care, He knows what kind of car it was, but right now only You care to Him.
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