Don't Waste Your Life.

In chapters 6 and 7 it talks about worldly possessions and how we as Christians should treat them. I think it is a challenging thing for me personally to be able to give and give and give. It's one of those things I need to work on and get better at. It's hard to give people things sometimes. When i'm in church and it's offering time sometimes i'm happy to give and sometimes I have to check myself because i'm sitting there thinking I only have like 5 dollars with me and what if I need it later... but I know i'm really not going to need it. So I just always have to remind myself that God gave me the money in the first place I shouldn't be so selfish with it. It's sometimes hard to give people time too. You can be too busy or too tired or something. Sometimes it's hard to really focus and talk to someone when i'm really tired and when i'm tired I get annoyed really easily which is so bad and I always feel bad when I look back and think about how disrespectful I was to them. Sometimes it's hard to give advice because sometimes you just don't know what to say or think the person doesn't even care what you have to say.

Now i'm supposed to talk about TV and internet. I think a major problem with TV is that people know that almost everyone watches it so they use it to manipulate people into thinking things that aren't true. Things like if you buy this car it'll make you so much cooler or if only you could look like this person then you would be so much better. Which is totally a lie and it's sort of disgusting when you really think about it but that's just how the world is and we've all become sort of numb to stuff like that just taking it as it is. Also I think that everything you see on TV has to be sexual.. like really? Even Disney Channel pushes the limit sometimes which is crazy that's like a kid station! Sexual content is everywhere and it just influences our minds to think that its okay. It's not though. I think the internet can be used in a bad way because we can get information so quickly and people can use the internet to ruin someones life. I mean if you look on your Facebook homepage some of the stuff you see on there is just so terrible and personal it's kind of weird to think that people would actually post things like that.

If someone was to look at my life and and compare tv/internet to worshipping God... This is a tough one. And it's kind of hard to answer because of course I want to say oh yeah worshipping God is way more prevelant in my life, but is that really true... I do spend time with God everyday but I also spend time on the TV and the computer and I probably spend more time on the tv. So, once again Don't Waste Your Life has convicted me.