According to a study released the last year by the company GWI, an average working individual spends 2 h 30 mn on social media. Also, it is said that an average individual watches 3 to 5 movies a day, knowing that a movie lasts usually two hours, which is between 6 to 10 hours per day. However, when you are Christian and that you aspire to spend time with God, you cannot have time for God if you give so much time to other things. Let’s make a simulation.
At 6 am, you wake up to prepare for work. From this moment you check your social media to see what are the last messages you received, and you respond at the same time. After 20 mn to check your messages, you see the time going on your watch and you calculate the time you need as usual to arrive on time at your office. Then, you take a bath, and you finish to prepare yourself. While you are dressing, you put a video and you listen to the top influencers you like. On the way, while you are in your car, you put your phone in front of you, on a phone stand, to make sure that you can receive your calls accordingly. If you take the bus, you check your messages, watch your videos, and respond to emails all along the way. Once arrived at work, you start to work, frequently disturbed by your social media notifications.
As soon as it comes, you respond immediately. During the break, while you are with your work colleagues, you check your messages and watch videos, and you take a selfie that you put on your social media. Later, when you finish your work, you go back at home, and you follow the same habits than when you went to your office in the morning: videos, messages, selfies, emails, social media posts, or even tweets. On the way, you buy food because you have no time to cook. You go after that to your home, where you take a bath, and after that watch a movie while you take your dinner.
Finally, after the fourth movie, you realize that it remains three hours before to go back to your usual routine of every day. You think to go to bed, but you check your social media before sleeping. Finally, it is time to wake up again, and to go to your office.
It is a fictional scenario, but it is also a true scenario, because some of us have such a life. And when you are Christian, it means that you have no time for God. You cannot serve your social media and God at the same time, you have to make room to let God in your life. Unfortunately, it is not always the case, because we do not even realize sometimes that we are addicted. Addicted is defined as being physically and mentally dependent on a particular substance, and unable to stop taking it without incurring adverse effects. It is the condition of many people, who do not realize that they are addicted to social media. Maybe that you are not so addicted to social media, but you realize anyway that you have an unusual attraction for social media, which does not allow you to give room to God for an intimacy with Him. The fact is that it is not God who is suffering not to be with Him, it is you who are suffering not to be with Him.
The only way to give room to God into your life, it is by starting to recognize your need of God. If you do not realize that you desperately need Him, you will never have the desire to seek Him more. Only by understanding that you will create a difference into your life. Indeed, maybe that you tried several times in the past to get rid of this addiction, but you failed. The reason is maybe that you just wanted to get rid of your addiction without replacing it by a true desire to know God more. In this way, I invite you to take the decision to seek God much more, it is the first step to a real deliverance of this addiction into your life. As long as you are addicted to social media, your time will alway be consumed by those things, and you will always be tired to seek God at the moment when you should do it. Moreover, you will even think less and less about seeking God. And when God is no more into your mind, other thoughts can take place, and other temptations can push you further, because of your addiction to social media. Then, if you struggle with an addiction to social media, just say to the Lord, right now, that you are addicted and need His help to be delivered. It will be already a cry to God, and God is not deaf, He will respond to help you.
Then, if your desire is to be free from this addiction to have a deep intimacy with God, and if you read until this part, it means that you really want to have an intimacy with God. I will explain in more details in my next posts. But now, just say to God that you need His help, and that you want to be free. He will come to your help, as always He does it when we cry to Him.
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