“You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off.” Psalm 139:2

Are you on TalkTalk as a broadband or phone provider? If you are then you will be aware that the system was hacked compromising sensitive data including bank details, passwords and anything really that the user conducted online. If that wasn’t bad enough we read later that this was carried out by a 15 year old boy logging onto to his computer from his bedroom in Northern Ireland. You can read about it here.

I have never been the victim of hacking so I can’t empathise. The closest situation I have to relate to that is when I came back to my car, after a difficult hospital visit, to find the lock drilled through and my stuff everywhere. Nothing was taken as there was nothing to take but it did leave me feeling very vulnerable.

No amount of safety measures on anything, be it a bank account, a car, a safety vault can stop someone taking it if they have the will to. Why would a 15 year old think to hack into a global company and offer a random note? Because he could. Probably he knew he would get caught and what’s the betting that he will probably now get a job in a to computer company helping them improve their security. This story, along with his name which cannot be given due to his age will disappear, so we will never really know.

Is anything really safe?

There is one thing that cannot be infiltrated by man or anyone else and that is you prayer life. God is the only one who can hear your prayers or your thoughts that you do not say out loud. As the Psalmist writes

“You know my sitting down and my rising up; You understand my thought afar off.”

So if you are feeling nervous or vulnerable, close your eyes and say a silent prayer knowing that no one is going to intercept you thought, whilst they go straight to the heart of God. Noone can hack your prayers to God.

Watch Jamie Jorge as he performs the beautiful hymn ‘Near to the Heart of God’. Click on the picture to listen.