Disney.

as everyone in the world has already tweeted or Facebook'd, Steve Jobs passed away. God blessed the man with ingenious creativity and originality and a humbler spirit than the majority of prominent Christians. Jobs invented and designed the best operating system so far (yeah, yeah, I use a PC, but let's get real...), and always pursued new and more challenging things.

the only unfortunate thing is that Steve Jobs didn't know it was God who gave him this gift and it was God who could take it away. like most people today, Jobs was stuck in the Disney mentality:

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart." (Steve Jobs @ his Stanford University commencement address in 1995)

 alas, poor heart. as Shakespeare put it,

"...poor fool, it keeps on the windy side of care."

not much of a compass, really. the heart makes a lousy map. if only Steve Jobs had made God's word his map!

"The law of God is in his heart, his steps do not slip." Psalm 37:31 (NASB).

I am praying for the Jobs family, for his friends and coworkers, and for the company that sells his creations. God is in control!

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as a side note...........I'd like to point out the difference between true Christians and the demon-possessed slanderers that claim faith in the one true Christ while defying everything Christ-like or Christ-natured. who else could I be speaking of but Westboro Baptist Church.

one of the cult's leaders tweeted an important announcement:

what an absolutely horrible, non-Christian thing to say. and this, of course, is the world's reference for Christians. the Westboro Baptists who claim God hates the world. the "church" has performed similar pickets against grieving families, destroying all witness about the truth of God and His purpose.

Washington Post Blog article: Westboro Church vs. Steve Jobs' funeral

yes, it would have been a beautiful miracle if God had transformed Steve Jobs, and Jobs, in turn, gave God the glory. but he didn't. a picket won't do anything except send people away from the truth.

all this to say... Westboro is a cult. nothing to do with the true God of the Bible.