For the past few days this fallen world has been on my mind. Looking at what people do, hearing and listening to what people say, learning what grabs them, what pleases them and what they think and how they feel about themselves is unreal. What stimulates this behavior? Technology. Technology improves the quality of life but it also energizes its opposite side. It’s like this; a knife in the hands of a doctor can save a life but in the hands of a murderer can take one.
Technology has become an idol god today brought to life by man’s imagination. Don’t have your cell phone in the vicinity of your person or similar device these days and watch attitudes change into panic or anger right before your eyes with exaggerated expressions of loss even grief fixed on their faces. The average young American now spends practically every waking minute except for time in a school classroom set and sleep using a smartphone, computer, television or other electronic device, “New York Times”.
School and media shape how young folks see the world. Satan rules the world system and the thoughts behind it because of the Fall of Man, (Matthew 4:8 and Revelation 12:9) using education, philosophy, mass media, the Arts, style, culture, entertainment, academia, government, churches, and technology bombarding us with views and laws contradictory of God’s Word. And the Scriptures tell us God destroyed and put to an end mankind because of his wicked imagination (Genesis 6:5,6), too, back then they didn’t and couldn’t even come close to the ease of moving information the way we do and can today.
Technology puts man’s imagination on steroids. God ain’t enough anymore is He? God can wait; got technology now. Everything but God is fast becoming the norm across the board signaling Jesus’ return sooner than we think, (Matthew 24:37-39).
I’ve never been so aware that I’m not of this world, maybe because now I’m older and the world is not about me anymore which helps me feel this way. I doubt it because scripture says I’m in the world but not of it because I’m saved now (John 8:23). Maybe my parent’s felt as I do today about my time, and maybe my parent’s parents felt the same way about my parent’s time. But no matter the generation technology was and is the culprit. It can urge the dark side of man’s imagination incredibly fast because of its capability to mass expose the sinful ways of this world with the intent to magnify and glorify it by how it gets broadcast, and we’re all victimized while new crimes and new lows of morality emerge and counter culture Industries thrive. God ain’t enough anymore is He? He can’t keep up, He’s old school they say, out of style; out of touch.
It’s not that God can’t keep up, the fact is more and more are being left behind. God doesn’t keep up; He wants to keep us from falling further behind then left. Too many are running the wrong way because of non-belief, disobedience or both. The masses are losing ground not God, the masses are out of touch not God; the masses are out of style/old school not God. God wants to pull but because of Satan’s craftiness camouflaged in all the allure we pull away hypnotized believing lies of deception; the con that brags, everybody’s doing it. We voluntarily pimp ourselves to the god of technology and its dark side. Technology was never meant to be an idol but it is now; God ain’t enough anymore is He?
But the born-again have an out written in (1st John 5:4,5) saying; the ones that will overcome the world believe that Jesus is the Son of God in the world but not of it, (John 17:14-16)
Gaidi
