Technology Overload

I wanted to take some time to share my thoughts of how God used a seemingly little disruption in my life to get my attention. My life as of today has been awesome! I have a wonderful, loving, kind, helpful and compassionate husband. I also have 3 children who are beautiful inside and out and add so much to my life that I feel so blessed that God chose me to be their mother. Elijah is 9 yrs old, Leah is 6 yrs old and our newest addition Rebekah is 3 months old. Life could not get any better. I am currently on maternity leave from my state job until early July and am blessed to have this time to bond with my new born and also am able to be home for the older children.

With all of these wonderful things happening in my life, I have recently been feeling distant from God. I had been reading the word less and my prayer life was also becoming less. I cannot say that I am bored at home with all the responsibilities of being a wife and mother. Each day in between my 2-3 hour feedings with Rebekah, I do my best to stay ahead with cooking, cleaning, grocery shopping, sports, girl scouts etc. You would think that one could understand why I have no time and may be feeling distant from God.

Even though this is happening, I have still found time to watch t.v, and be on my cellphone, whether it is facebook or texting or my email. I even started watching a show called blacklist that I really enjoy. I managed to watch a whole season in a manner of a few weeks.

Then a few days ago, we started having connection problems with our cable provider. This meant wi-fi and internet was on and off. In addition, the on demand feature, and netflix was not working. I was pretty upset and thinking to myself: “this is ridiculous”. “I need my internet, wi-fi and cable connections”. My husband and I for the last 3 days have been attempting to watch the series A.D on Tv and were not able to. I ended up calling the cable company and now they are sending someone out to check the connection and digital problems we are having.

Then it happened. God was speaking to me and I heard loud and clear. He was trying to get my attention. You are distant from me because of all the technology in your life! I love you and miss talking to you and communing with you. There it was. The interruption in my life was the exact wake up call I needed to realize why I have been so distant. It was me and my selfish desires of putting these things above him.

Here are the verses that are brought to my mind in relation to putting other things in place of God. Exodus 20:3-“You shall have no other gods before me. And Deuteronomy 5:8-9 says, “You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind, or an image of anything in the heavens or on the earth or in the sea. You must not bow down to them or worship them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God who will not tolerate your affection for any other gods.”

In closing, I am happy that my father has brought this to my attention out of his love and devotion to me the things of this world that I was beginning to worship. It is so easy to put other things in place of our God. It can be work, family, friends, love of money, shopping, TV, etc. The world has so much to offer. I am not saying this is a bad thing. For me, some of these things that I have mentioned were beginning to interfere with my relationship with the Lord.

My prayer for anyone reading this is that you take an personal inventory of yourself to see if technology may be interfering with your relationship with the Lord or other relationships perhaps. The spirit has given all of us who love God and claim to know him the fruit of the spirit of Self Control. With Christ’s help we can have the balance of self control in these area’s of our lives.

God Bless,
Trisha