When a Trojan is launched it is too late to try to protect your "stuff"

You hear a blast to end all blasts from a trumpet, and in the time that you look up and blink your eyes - it's over. On signal from that trumpet from heaven, the dead will be up and out of their graves, beyond the reach of death, never to die again. At the same moment and in the same way, we'll all be changed. 1 Corinthians 15:52 (The Message)

It didn’t take long. It was just a matter of a second … if that long.

There I was working away on an online giveaway entry form and BINGO, almost bigger than my screen was something that I didn’t recognize.

I couldn’t get out of it fast enough. Too late! A Trojan was launched.

Turn off the computer. Unplug it from the wall. Ouch! Too late.

That is how the computer world works. The result was that I was dead in the water until my faithful son-in-love could work on it. Took him all weekend.

It is back up and running, but there is still much to be fixed.

Trojan’s are nasty things. Most of them just want to come into our computer, bring their friends and play around by disabling as many of our programs as possible. Mean-spirited people who evidently have too much time on their hands create them. They just love to “mess” with us!

Then it got me thinking about those men and women with what appear to be good intentions, but misguided understanding who just love to predict calamities and tragedies … like the end of the world, second coming, Wall Street collapses, bank failures, etc. I say good intentions fully in the understanding that the “good” part is understood only within their own mind-sets.

Here is the bottom line, at least from my perspective – things can change in a twinkling of an eye. We can reach a “too late” time in our lives as in, a disease is starting to spread throughout our bodies and it is too late to start eating correctly, exercising and taking vitamins; too late as in when we reach the age of 65 and having failed to financially prepare for retirement it is too late to start putting money aside; too late as when there is a great new job opportunity that has come open, but we have not been doing our present job to the best of our abilities and have failed to educate our minds; too late as when we are on a car trip, a tire goes flat and we start looking for our spare … oh, yes, it has already been used and it is still sitting in the garage …

“Ouch factors” happen … some we cannot prepare for, some we can.

The thing to realize is that Trojans are just waiting to invade our space and destroy our rhythm and flow. In a twinkling of an eye … the trumpet will sound and then we realize … too late!