{"id":1784,"date":"2015-09-07T05:17:57","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T05:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2015-09-07T05:23:17","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T05:23:17","slug":"that-temptation-in-your-pocket-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/?p=1784","title":{"rendered":"That Temptation in Your Pocket! (Part Two)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Phone<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 If you idolize popularity, if it is being admired and having lots \u00a0of followers that makes you feel good about yourself, then you\u00a0 will be tempted to use your smart-phone to pursue that idol. You may use the camera to take inappropriate photographs of \u00a0yourself in Instagram<\/em>, or you may use the Facebook<\/em> app to say harsh words about other people. That phone that can be used \u00a0to do so much good and to bring so much encouragement will now be used to cause harm.<\/p>\n

There are not many people who buy a phone intending to use it to harm others or to look at pornography. But where your heart is, there your technology will be also. The way you use your technology reveals your heart. \u00a0It shows whether your heart is oriented toward God and toward finding true joy and satisfaction in Him, or whether you are \u00a0attempting to find counterfeit joy and satisfaction in the things He forbids. At any moment, your heart has a purpose for your \u00a0phone. Yes, thank God for your smart-phone, but plead with Him for wisdom to use it well, and guard your heart.<\/p>\n

Use It to the Glory of God!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

And now it is time to take that phone out of the box and to turn it on for the first time. As you hold it in your hand, why don\u2019t you take a moment to pray? Ask God to help you to use that phone well. Commit before Him right now that, to the best of your abilities, you will only ever use it to serve His purposes. Ask a believing friend or two to be your accountability and check in regularly. Then go and glorify Him with and through it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 If you idolize popularity, if it is being admired and having lots \u00a0of followers that makes you feel good about yourself, then you\u00a0 will be tempted to use your smart-phone to pursue that idol. You may use the camera to take inappropriate photographs of \u00a0yourself in Instagram, or you may use the … Continue reading That Temptation in Your Pocket! (Part Two)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[68,143,142],"class_list":["post-1784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-devotional-thoughts","category-uncategorized","tag-gods-glory","tag-harm","tag-idolize"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p69z0J-sM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1789,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions\/1789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblestudies4you.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}