Hello again, everyone and blessed morning to you, MB here yet again.
I have found myself coming to a very startling and troubling realization this morning. Our God, all powerful, all knowing, our great and merciful creator, YHWH gave us remarkable amounts of intelligence. No, that is not the startling realization.

The Startling realization is that we have used that intelligence to attempt to replace him with something we’ve created.. doesn’t that sound familiar? A lot like yesterday’s post actually. The post about “worship the one true God who created man, rather than the gods that were created by man.”
It’s been happening for a while, but I’ve finally come to realize that one of these man created gods has taken YHWH’s place in many of our lives.
If you were to ask any random person on the street, I don’t believe they would admit that this man -created god is their god, even though it demands worship from them and sacrifices of their time daily.

Even the fact that this false God is very prevalent in today’s culture wouldn’t lead anyone who worships it to admit  it. Why? Because I don’t think anyone actually knows when they’ve begun to worship this idol, this false god.

Who is this god? you might ask ?
it does indeed have a name and its name is technology.

Everywhere we go now we see technology. There is not a single little iota of our lives that technology isn’t directly involved in. It used to be that we would turn to YHWH when we had questions, but now we just ask Google, or Siri or bing or any other one of the thousands of search engines or millions of websites on the Internet or as they used to call it the World Wide Web.

Some of us have gone further than just having the Internet answer questions though. Some of us have gone so far as to attempt to put it in the place of God. Whether it be intentional or it just slowly crept into our lives and took that coveted seat, it has still happened to us all.

Can we use it for good? Yes we can.
Can we use it to spread God’s word? Yes we can.
Can we use it as a ministry tool? Yes, we can.
But do we? Largely… The answer is no. By a vast majority, most of us just use it for convenience, a desire for convenience that was born out of the impatient nature of humanity.

We were created to worship the Holy Trinity. (God The Father, God The Son (Jesus), and God The Holy Spirit)
We weren’t created to worship our phones. We should be offering our time, resources and energy to YHWH not our computers or tablets or smart watches.

We should be tithing 10% of our income to the church and therefore God, to further the spread of His word. Not putting it into our various Apple subscriptions for the month.
God loves us and knows what is best for us. We must remember that only he knows what that is. Our advancements in science and technology have in many ways, led us to believe we know more than God does. They have in many ways led us to believe we could run our lives, and therefore the world, better than he can.
I’m telling you now, we are gravely wrong. Technology is giving us a false sense of security, a false sense of intelligence and knowledge that we do not actually have.

Many of us who are currently using technology as our driving force each and every day remember a time where that wasn’t an option. Mine was the last generation who was born without ready access to cell phones and the Internet. My generation was the last one to be born that had to pound school lessons into our brains by reading over and over from a textbook instead of looking up the answers on Google for our test the following day or surreptitiously asking Siri the answers to a question in the middle of an exam.
Even further back than that, people knew how to read maps, they knew how to navigate by the stars, they knew how to plot courses , they knew how to write proper research papers and how to do the research the hard way.
With the heavy integration of technology to our lives, especially AI, a lot of these things, a lot of these skills are now becoming lost arts.
If you take anyone age 25 and younger and put them in the middle of the woods without their phone and without Wi-Fi or cellular connection of any kind. If you just give them a map and a compass, it may take them weeks if not months to get back home.

I’m not saying this to besmirch any generation or make anyone angry, but I am saying it to show that we are losing skills that we had just a handful of years ago.
I’m saying this to show that the heavy usage of technology has taken much more away from us than God would ever ask and it isn’t giving anything of value back in return.

Whether we realize it or not, technology has taken our worship, technology has taken our praise, technology has taken our tithes, technology has taken our offerings, and in many of our minds technology has changed its name to “god”
Through Jesus Christ, YHWH gave us freedom. Through convenience, technology is taking it away. Little by little, our world is shrinking and soon it will only be the size of our phone screens.