Computerviruses and Sin

A virus is a program that harms. Remember our doggie program: "if there's little food left go and buy some more". Now we add a new harmful information: "In case you can't pay go home, get the gun and assault a gas station. Then repeat step 1".

Viruses mess up programs. Many times to a point that they don't function anymore. They can leave your computer totally useless. Many times the only solution is to reformat your computer and reinstall the operating system.

Obviously our lives get further and further away from the original program which made us happy children, and we become more and more complicated, lost and not living the way we were designed. For example a warlord in Nigeria who killed 20,000 people. Or just an average person who lives for nothing else but for his work and spending the money he earns.

The Good Old Designer has provided a way to reformat our lives, by sending the original program in a way we can easily receive it and become reformatted. He wrote that he sent Jesus into the world and that whosoever reveives him can become a child of God again (John 1:12). This warlord that I have mentioned before did this. He changed and became the person he was intended to be, a loving and caring man, now going around apologizing and helping others to get reformatted. Asking Jesus to come into our hearts is just like putting the DVD with the original operating system into your computer and reinstalling it. 
The best thing about this is that like in a computergame we get a new life, greatly updated, that never ends. Since Jesus destroyed the virus we won't have these kinds of problems in our next life anymore.