THE WORLD WIDE WEB“’

"Are you on The Web?"
The question might be asked
"Are you the spider or the fly?" 

Are you the one who
Sends out sticky threads,
That hopes to trap by guile?

Or, are you the one
Stuck upon the thread,
Who, with twang and shake

Endeavours to be free?
The World Wide Web
Is waiting there to trap

Unwary browsers who
See not the spider's eyes,
Beady, greedy and black,

Jaws ready to snap up
    The electronic browser
                Whole!

I wrote this, after asking a businessman friend of mine, if he was "on the web".  The poem is not a reflection of him, but simply, my impression of the way the world of commerce is going, fast!

In the 1960's, when I worked as an office junior in a bank in the City of London, the motto of the Stock Exchange was still "My word is my bond".  Naively, I imagined it would always be so.  How things have changed!  Family banks being brought down by individual traders and computer theft and insider trading are just a few of the things that have made "the City", a far less safe place.

Financially, the world seems much less a secure place than it was when "My word is my bond" was a standard that was looked up to, but there is "Someone" whose Word is still His Bond, who does not change, the Lord Jesus Christ, whose heart is full of love and compassion and who says, "Whoever comes to me, I will never drive away". 

Why not reach out to him today, He is already reaching out in love to you.