Soul Hacking

Having your website hacked is a real pain. Believe me, I know. A few weeks ago, our website, www.ecmgsu.org, was hacked into by a group of people who used it to stage an illegal eBay scam. Don't worry ... everything is fixed and back to normal, but boy, what a headache it created. It took days to go through all the files and clean out the crud that didn't belong there, and believe me, there was plenty of crud.

The same can often be true of our spirits. It's remarkable how easily people can hack our souls... changing who we are by placing unfair expectations, demands, and anxieties upon us. When we're not careful, we can become so overloaded with what others want us to be that we forget who we really are and why God made us in the first place.

Last weekend, ECM went on a retreat, which provided several of us with a chance to clean out some of the unnecessary crud in our own lives. But that sort of thing doesn't have to take place only on a retreat. When was the last time you "went through the files" and tossed out those things in your heart that only weigh you down? If it's been a while, take a look. You might just find that under all the pressures and expectations heaped on you by others, there is a vibrant soul, created by God for amazing purposes, waiting to emerge and be free.