I HATE stress. If there is anything in life that I despise, loath, or shake my fist at, it’s stress. It goes against every bone in my body. And it goes against scripture too (Luke 12:22-34). So why in the heck to do we put so much time and energy into stressing out about things? One big way that we stress ourselves out is by keeping our phone on all the time.
I just recently got a smart phone for a graduation present and it’s been awesome. I love having my email, twitter, and posterous in my pocket wherever I go. It’s been a lot of fun being able to go somewhere and update right then and there. The problem, however, is that I often whip out my phone to see if someone had sent me a text/email/tweet/direct message/call/poke/present/picture/link/reference. How often do I let this little device control me? I know that whenever I hear that ringtone or feel that vibration, I jump to grab my phone, regardless of the circumstances.
Really? Am I that enslaved to a cell phone? A computer? A stress?
We all are so easily controlled and influenced by things, and that’s probably why Jesus calls us sheep, and he is our shepherd. We’re dumb as a doornail. We wouldn’t know what’s good for us if it stared us in the face. That’s why He’s the head of the body and we’re the members, so that he’s in control. But how often is that the reality? Not really that often. Which is an issue. How does he influence your life in this regard? Does he control your life, or does your life control you?
I invite you to control your life. Don’t submit to a yoke of slavery again (Gal 5:1); Live in the freedom Christ purchased for you! I’m learning how valuable it is to keep things simple in life. I used to use Remember The Milk, but now I carry around a little pocket journal. I don’t really use facebook; Twitter is my main platform. I used to post to my Posterous and Flickr, now I just post to Posterous. Moral of the story? Keep things SIMPLE, my friends. It’s way more fun that way.
Stressful Sheep