The Lure of a message-ODB

You’re sitting in a darkened theater enjoying a concert, a play, or a film, when suddenly a smartphone screen lights up as a person reads an incoming text and perhaps takes time to reply. In his book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains,Nicholas Carr says that in our connected world, “The sense that there might be a message out there for us” is increasingly difficult to resist.

Samuel was a young boy when he heard a voice call his name and thought it was Eli the priest in the tabernacle where he served the Lord (1 Sam. 3:1-7). When Eli realized that God was calling Samuel, he told the boy how to respond. When God called his name a fourth time, “Samuel answered, ‘Speak, for Your servant hears’” (v.10). This attentiveness to God’s voice became the pattern of Samuel’s life as “the Lord revealed Himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the Lord” (v.21).

Are we listening for God’s voice in our lives today? Are we more drawn by the vibration of a smartphone than the still, small voice of the Lord through His Word and His Spirit?

May we, like Samuel, learn to discern God’s voice and say, “Speak, Lord. I’m listening.”

May we listen, Lord, to You
As You speak to us today
Through Your Spirit and Your Word—
Help us follow and obey. —Sper

Don’t let the noise of the world keep you from hearing the voice of the Lord.

People now in our generation are much more inclined to technology. they attend more to things that will somehow or greatly caused you to turn away from God. Instead that we have to enjoy our time with God, we are much more tempted to our technologies and the like. these are the works of evil. he wanted you to separate from the relationship of God. he is wise though but be not tempted. Dont let facebook or twitter grabs your entire time. That time is precious and God wants you to use it well. Ans also, when God is calling you, you busy with these things. You are turning away from God but you cannot feel it. you have a lot of time but your time with God is little and maybe soon it will be gone. 

I am also speaking to myself. To be honest, I became addicted with facebook. Come to think of it, facebook is controlling us not us to control the website. Do we have the good effects of it? No. totoo nga't nawawalan na tayo ng oras sa Diyos dahil sa kakafacebook or sa twitter. Mas masaya pa ang Diyos kung makikita niya tayong nagaaral instead o kaya spend our time with the family. A Christian like us must be thinking matured enough of how we should manage our time well. 

Let God be the superior to your time. You should put Him first in evrything you do.