No Autocorrect with God

The church bulletin was explaining the plan of salvation but instead of the word “sin” it encouraged readers to “ask God to forgive your sings.” Even though I personally need forgiveness for my singing, I knew it was a mistake. Spell check would have done no good. The church could have used autocorrect. The Urban Dictionary defines autocorrect as, “a feature built into many modern phones, which automatically changes unrecognized words to their closest matches, if any exist. Of course, on occasion it will select the wrong word, usually changing the original meaning of the sentence completely,” such as the man who texted his wife that the result of his doctor’s visit was a sinus infection, but the autocorrect changed it to “dinosaur infection.” Most of the other well-known autocorrect mistakes can’t be printed here. When it comes to sin, we have something similar to autocorrect. The Holy Spirit within us convicts us of sin, but God does not automatically correct our sinful mistakes. We must do the correcting ourselves. While “all have sinned” (Romans 3:23), not all have corrected their sinful mistakes. As the Spirit of God convicts of wrong, we must do the correcting. There is no autocorrect with God.

Join me in remembering the following global concerns in prayer:
• Happy Chinese New year! Sunday, February 10 is the first day of the new lunar year. Pray for those who serve among Chinese people.
• Pray for new churches to be planted in 60 towns and villages in central and southern Taiwan with a population of 3.5 million people.
• Feb. 6-8, training will be held for national partners regarding methods of planting Sunday gathering places in a highly secure country. This will launch a two year vision to start Sunday gathering places in 30 different villages. Pray.
• Pray for a volunteer group from Arkansas who will be working Feb. 3-10 in a refugee center in a Balkan country.