Passwords
There
are two hundred and fifty-six names given in the Bible for the Lord Jesus
Christ, and I suppose this was because He was infinitely beyond all that any
one name could express. Billy Sunday
Do you ever get tired of passwords? I was going to go out and buy some tunes on
iTunes last night. What should have
taken a few minutes turned into an hour and I must say I can never remember my
Apple ID. And since I am now in the
“Cloud” that password is different. I keep getting a warning on my phone that
tells me it has been 6 weeks since my “iCloud” has been backed up and then it
asks me for a password I don’t remember.
Do I care? Not really. I am not sure what secure information it is
trying to back up anyway. My only
concern at this point is that I can dial 911 when I need it.
Does anyone else have this problem besides me? I had to
change my password three times before it would accept it and there is no
guarantee it will accept it the next time I try it. I even did the most unsecure thing you can
do; I wrote my new password on a piece of paper so I wouldn’t forget it. I mean I needed at least eight characters,
one capital letter, one lower case letter, one symbol and it couldn’t be a
password I had used before. Prior to
this I tried to go to my security questions to retrieve it and when it asked me
my birthday it didn’t accept that either.
The final straw that broke the camel’s back was it only gave me two
tries before it totally locked me out.
I understand the need for security, but seriously. I mean, if I don’t know my birthday who
does? You would have thought I was
trying to break into Fort Knox.
I leave for work this morning and I have a code to get
into my car, a password to get into my iPhone to listen to the tunes I bought
on iTunes. Since I am in the “Cloud” I
also have a password to get into my email on my phone. I stop to get gas and I have to enter my pin
for my credit card and once I am at work I have a key card to get into the
office, different passwords to get into my computer, Brix, Lotus, the Intranet,
Buzzsaw and any number of other software programs that I use for work.
I am beginning to think the Internet and technology isn’t
all it’s cracked up to be. I spend more time trying to get into the programs I
use at work than I actually spend working.
Then there are those reminders that your password is going to expire in
2 days. That just throws me into a
panic. What will I use this time that
has 8 characters, one cap, one lower case, one symbol and hasn’t been used
before? I’ve already used my dog’s name,
my husband’s, my neighbor’s address, my nephew’s birthday. I’m beginning to run out of options.
Then I had an epiphany.
I am going to use the one thing that doesn’t need a password “the
Bible”. If I use names and verses in the
Bible I will never run out of passwords and when I go look up my new password,
I can study about the person’s name I will use and that will remind me what my
new password is and the added benefit is I will be spending more time with God. Bonus!!
I am so glad we had this talk. I feel so much better. I got all of that off my chest and came up
with a naming convention for future passwords.
God is Great and God is Good!
Prayer for the Day: Heavenly
Father, You are never far from my thoughts.
Sometimes things of this world frustrate me. We humans have a tendency to make things
extremely complicated when it doesn’t need to be. Thank You for Your gift of the Bible. It is the greatest Book ever written and I
don’t need a password to access it.
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