It’s that wake up in the middle of the night feeling like something is terribly wrong. You quickly reach into your pocket, purse or bag and check your phone. Why? Because you want to make sure that no one has tried to call or text you…I am guilty of having these ‘Phantom Feelings’ and have felt convicted of them lately. It is on a rare occasion that I am not within 5 ft of my cell phone, and I have started to have a love/hate relationship with it.
There have been times in my life that I check my phone multiple times in short time spans to check to see if I have a missed call, text, received a facebook message, check twitter updates, wordwithfriends challenge, email or the latest news. At the time it is happening I’m not thinking too much about it, but when I look at the big picture I can’t help but think I have a problem.
Why am I checking in so much into this world, and not pursuing the Lord with that same passion as I do my phone at times? Why am I more worried about being 5 ft away from my phone, and not worried about being 5 ft away from the word of God? Why am I constantly making time to see if I have missed a call or message from someone? Yet creating time to “Be still and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:10) is a constant struggle for me. Why do I check my phone for messages when I know that it hasn’t been ringing or buzzing throughout the day?
In Psalm 1:2 ‘his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night’. This is what I want for my life. I must consistently turn to the scriptures and memorize the messages that the Lord has already left for all of us. I must renew my mind and worry more about missing what the Lord is trying to teach me in certain moments, and not worry about missing a call from someone who I can just call back later.
Do you know that feeling I’m talking about? Are you addicted to your phone?
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