I like history. I actually enjoy a thing called geographical history, basically where you know
you can take history but you can visualize it on a map gaining knowledge as a whole in my life has been really important.
You know the way we gain knowledge today is
through the internet. The internet has access to whatever you want. My beginning experience with
the internet was when I was nine, when my parents gave me the privilege of owning my own computer.
A few years later I was also able to get my own phone. Now that I had these two devices I was able
to spend as much time as I wanted to be able to gratify my want for gaining information,
gaining knowledge, learning new things about new people, about figures in history, about wars
all in all things that just wouldn't really lift me up spiritually. Because of this my devotional
life was compromised. Things my time that I spent with God was not the same anymore. I began to just
lose track of things around me, everything was honed in on this one thing, and because that I
wasn't able to spend time with things like my family, my friends, even going out into
nature, I didn't do that anymore. I remember one day, it was actually a Wednesday.
I hadn't set my priorities straight, it was rough, things were going on in the
family that just were not jiving and the source of the problem of course was this whole thing
with me spending too much time on my computer and my phone and it was just all in all a really bad
day. Went downstairs to my room and I was just upset, I was mad and I rashly just
cried out to God, I was just like Lord, you know I'm addicted to this. I can't change it.
So if you want me to get rid of this, You're gonna have to change it because I can't. I give you one
week, one week Lord. If it's not gone in one week then I'm just gonna forget it and just continue
living my life. Then continued on with the rest of my day. I didn't think much about what i just said,
never realized that would be important, I very soon just forgot about it
and didn't make anything of it you know, Monday, Tuesday, regular days. Then Wednesday came again
and beginning today seemed the same and that evening went to go plug in my phone and
plugged it in to the wall, notice that it didn't make any any sort of notification that it was
charging. I noticed that it was just kind of just blank didn't do anything but I didn't think
nothing of it, I mean, I had other things I needed to do, so I just kind of left continued on with
the rest of my evening. Came back later and this time the phone which is black tried turning on
didn't turn on. I was like what's going on here? So I figured maybe the chord the chord maybe
the chords got something wrong so I tried out a different chord it didn't work, and thought what's
going on here I tried on different devices just nothing it wasn't working the phone was not there.
Then all of a sudden it hit me, the wall breaks. Words popped into my mind, "I give you one week."
This just wasn't a coincidence. God just fried my phone. Thankfully Lord did help me with
that addiction. I learned a very important lesson on the power of God, but I even learned an even
more important lesson, that God's power is not just in executing judgment or punishment if you call it.
Is that that he loves you and that He's able to help you and He wants to help you
more than anything. He wants to help you be able to overcome the things in your lives
that you need to change. The Lord helped me and I know He can help you all too. You know addiction
is a thing that we don't like to say very often because it puts a name on us. Addiction
when we think of addiction we think of things like alcoholics and drug addicts,
and things that are nasty, but addiction is not those things, it doesn't have to be major.
Addiction simply is just having something that is more important than God. If God is
not first in your life, then something else is, and whatever that is, is an addiction. But
the only healthy addiction that we can have is an addiction to learn more and grow closer to Christ.
I know that Christ helped me, and I know He can help you too.
In any situation you have, whether it be small, whether it be great,
He's always there looking out for you in any way possible. All you have to do is let Him.