One of the scary aspects of social media is that the system knows you very well. Once you access a few contents online, the media platform would assume what you enjoy watching and create an algorithm of similar contents and will continue to push the videos and in the end click bait you in continuing to watch more contents. So once you watch a video online, you will find yourself watching another one, followed by another, and another. Before you know it, an hour has gone by just like that.
If you were watching or reading an educational and informative content which proved to be a productive time, good for you. But in most cases, it’s not like that. It’s more of a wasted time. On average, people spend about 143 minutes on social media each day. That’s 2 hours and 23 minutes! Think about what else you could have done with that time. Imagine the positive things you could have done with those two and half hours: spend more time with family, study, exercise, spend time with God etc.
I was thinking about this as I was reading Acts 19 with the kids at home. There were people practing magic in the community and it affected the advancement of the gospel due to this. But when the name of Jesus overpowered them, they repented and confessed their sins. “Also, many of those who had practiced magic brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted up the value of them, and it totaled fifty thousand pieces of silver.” Acts 19:19. Think of all that money that could have been spent for ministry, that was a lot of investment. But now, they were all surrendered to Christ. When the source of evil were eliminated, guess what happened? “So the word of the Lord grew mightily and prevailed.” Acts 19:20.
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