I was texting my son to see if he wanted to go with me to the clay bird shoot at the Ruth Farm the following day. As I texted, “Planning on shooting t-o-m-…” the phone autocorrected the sentence, “Planning on shooting Tom?” rather than my intended text: “Planning of shooting tomorrow?” That kind of struck me as funny & I wondered how Tom might feel about it. How would you feel if you knew that the whole cellular world was trying to encourage people to shoot you?
Knowing how many times my phone has sent messages I wasn’t intending to send, that got me to thinking further: Could this somehow be used against me in a court of law? With all this NSA surveillance going on could my phone send an unintended threatening message then turn me in to the authorities? More than ever before we need all the protection we can get. This morning we’re going to be talking about the Helmet of Salvation.