I am not someone to get nervous easily. When I’m nervous, watch out for anything to happen.

For the most part, I try to stay calm, collected, and composed. Then there are times when I’ve had enough and I won’t take it anymore.

When I am nervous about something, it is not small or insignificant. I can squash pesky critters my entire life and never be bothered by a bug.

Lately, some things have been developing “in my world”, that has me more than a little concern. In fact, it is on the verge of being shaken territory. Something has to be done because if I’m nervous in this area, watch out!

I’m not sure, if I’m noticing it now or if it’s been here for a while. When I got my cell phone, I was under the impression that the only people who would have my cell phone number would be the ones I gave it to. I am not one to give my cell phone number to just anyone. If you have my cell phone number, you are in a high-end BFF category.

I sincerely believe that the devil has hacked my cell phone, collected my cell phone number, and is selling my number to the most despicable people he owns.

I’ve been getting political calls lately. People trying to interview me about the upcoming elections. They want me to contribute to political polls being evaluated. They want my opinion and they have a lot of questions that they are going to ask me.

I know they don’t want my opinion because all these calls are what are called Robbery calls. In other words, it is not a real person asking these questions, but a machine. If you think for a moment that I am going to have a conversation with a machine, you do not have all the cables connected.

How they get my cell phone number is beyond me. It is probably his close connection to the devil himself.

I have also received calls from a company that feels that I have some kind of pain. They call and say I applied for this pain fix on their website. Now what you want to know is if my back, elbow, or knee hurts?

I was so fed up with these calls that I finally said, “My neck hurts.” To which, I got an excited response on how they could help me with my neck pain.

You know what is coming. I told them that the pain in my neck was that they were calling me and that if they wanted to help this pain in the neck they left to stop calling me, for the love of Pete.

I almost had it with this. The question I struggle with is, should I lie to these people who call me?

For example. Someone called me last week telling me that they noticed a certain virus on my computer and that if I allowed them access to my computer they could fix my computer. Talk about a pain in the neck!

This was the 15th time this company called me to offer to fix my computer. So, I figured if they were going to waste my time calling me, maybe I should waste their time trying to get my computer fixed.

“Oh yeah,” I said as excited as I could sound, “please fix my computer.”

Now they wanted me to turn on my computer and so on. I must confess that at that time I was not you, my computer was on my cell phone.

They gave me instructions and I obeyed them, or at least I told them that I was obeying them.

“Okay,” I said, “Is my computer on what I’m doing next?” I’ll confess if you promise not to tell anyone, but I didn’t have my computer on.

Then they gave me instructions that I should go to a certain website.

“Okay,” I said, “I’m there, what do I do now?”

They gave me a password that I was supposed to use to access them so they could access my computer.

“You’ve done it already?”

“Yes, I pressed it and what do I do next?”

“Something is wrong,” said the person on the other end of the phone. “You must not have entered the correct password. Let me give it to you again.”

He gave it to me again, which in turn I gave it back to him again.

This lasted about 20 minutes and the person on the other end of my cell phone was very frustrated and on the verge of anger. I, on the other end of the cell phone, could barely control my laughter.

When he hung up, he was very frustrated and couldn’t understand why it wasn’t working.

After this person hung up on me and I stopped laughing, I thought about what David said. “Give them according to their works, and according to the wickedness of their efforts; give them according to the work of their hands; give them their merit” (Psalms 28: 4).

Sometimes giving back what you get can lead you to a certain level of joy that you didn’t have before.