"Look straight ahead, and fix your eyes on what lies before you. 26Mark out a straight path for your feet; stay on the safe path. 27Don’t get sidetracked; keep your feet from following evil". Proverbs 4:25-27 NLT
Have you ever noticed how many people are glued to their mobile phone? I was in a hospital waiting room a few days ago, and out of, perhaps forty people there, at least thirty of them were on their phones. It's the same on a bus, a train, doctors surgery, dentist's, supermarket and even walking down the street. I've observed young mothers checking their phones as they take their children to school. Often, they are oblivious to what the child is doing. It's almost like an addiction.
Before mobile phones, I very rarely used a telephone box to make a call, in fact, unless it was urgent, it never entered my head. Now, people are speaking on their phones most of the day. For some people, it is part of the whole of their day and they even shop and cook while speaking on their phone. I'm not saying this is wrong but, could this be distracting them from what they should be doing? Even in church these days, bibles have been swapped for reading the Word that has been downloaded on to their phone. Then if something comes through, they begin checking this out and are distracted.
Notice what Solomon wrote in v27 above: 'Don't get sidetracked.' When you are locked into the habit of using your phone so frequently, you can easily miss what's around. When you are continually playing Solitaire so much (Sorry that's as far as my gaming knowledge goes), God may be wanting you to spend some time with Him. He may want to talk to you and, probably the best way to get hold of you is by texting you. My point here is, whilst you're spending so much time on your phone, He can't get through to you, because, as convenient as it may be to you, He doesn't use mobiles. If mobiles had been invented in Jesus' time, I can't picture Peter telling Jesus, 'Yes I'll do that in a minute Jesus, just let me finish this game.' His priorities were rigid and he could not be sidetracked from them at all, after Jesus had forgiven him.
There's nothing wrong with having a mobile, not at all. But, it is not the most important part of your life, God is; your family is and priorities must be made and stuck to. If you're married, once your commitment to your wife, husband, children and jobs at home are completed, then there is nothing wrong in messing around on your phone. If you have a job, you need to concentrate on this with the mobile taking second place.
Don't let the mobile become an addiction or in first place. Put Jesus there!
Copyright 2023 Grahame Howard.
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