There are things that can draw us, tempt us, to waste the time we have been given on this earth. We are told by the Word that our life is but a vapor – a whiff of smoke – here today and gone tomorrow. We also know that there is a force that is dark and sinister that seeks to keep us from our living a life that is honoring to the Lord. That shadowy entity uses seemingly innocuous things to draw us away from people and from accomplishing all that we can by stealing our time. Once we are drawn away, we can then become immersed in something so deeply that we are restrained from not only interacting with the people we encounter, but we are restrained from accomplishing our goals. And, worse, any dream or hope can be destroyed. I could tell you that this involves only the big obvious “sins”, but I would be doing you a grave disservice. The truth is we can be drawn away by something little that we allow to become big in our lives. Most of us spend some bit of time watching a movie, TV show, or the news, playing a video game, checking social media, surfing the net, reading a book, or shopping. When we begin to crave the show, the movie, the game, social media, the book, or shopping, fairly quickly we may find most of our spare time is spent engaging in that activity. Just like alcohol to an alcoholic, our “addiction” wastes our lives and, by extension, the impact we could have had on those around us. We are drawn away from our real purpose, caught in its’ web, where the menacing enemy is able to steal our time, thus killing our dreams and our hopes, and destroy the goals God planned for us.
- What binds your time and thus your hopes, your dreams, and God’s goals for your life?
- What keeps you from having real meaningful interaction with people?
- What if you gave up that “addiction” for thirty days?
- What could you accomplish?
- Whose life could you make a difference in?