I made a
covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a young woman (Job 31:1).
In the 1983 film WarGames, Matthew Broderick plays a teenage computer
whiz kid who accidentally hacks into U.S. missile defense. Thinking he’s found
his way into a computer game company, he’s eager to sample their newest
product. He comes across such files as Tic-Tac-Toe, Chess,… and a very intriguing Global
Thermonuclear War.
The computer asks: “Do
you want to play a game?” And before
he knows what’s happening, it locks him out and initiates the countdown to a
preemptive nuclear strike.
While the countdown
progresses, the kid challenges the computer to a game of Tic-Tac-Toe. Because two evenly matched players can play Tic-Tac-Toe indefinitely and neither of them ever win a
game, the computer soon learns the concept of stalemate. It starts looking ahead through all the
possible outcomes of a nuclear war and comes to a conclusion.
The only winning move is not to play.
The control room at
NORAD breathes a collective sigh of relief, the world is saved, and the
delinquent computer genius is celebrated as the hero.
We may think we can
play the game of lust and come out a winner but we cannot. There are always
consequences for playing this game. Job had taken precautions to protect
himself. When it comes to sexual fantasy and lust, the only winning
move is not to play.
TODAY’S MEDITATION
How are you protecting
yourself? …your marriage?
No comments:
Post a Comment