Networked to Death

Inspired by 1 Corinthians 6:12

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be enslaved by anything.”

 
 

Ballad of the Nomophobe

He leads us beside still waters, To stare at cell phone screens? This crack phonecaine narcotic, Leads far from evergreens,

It’s a visual soup of amusing tripe, A babbling feast of fleeting, A trivial endless stream of dross, to this place where You are leading,

Can I afford to be consumed, By fast-food for one’s brain, Or am I a living sacrifice, allowing seconds, minutes, hours to be slain?

Birthing isms within schisms, Virtue signaling bribes, This instrument of malice, Incarcerates people into tribes.

Videogameology, Please appreciate the threat, That devotion to a high score, Can be an encircling net.

Christ is not out played, By novelty of human hands, Service is His high score, Will that be the race we ran?

Behind the Scenes

This idea for this image came from a willingness to show somehow that technology can waste time and therefore waste life. Which means wasted opportunities to be the Christian I am called to be.

When my wife and I first got cell phones many years ago I learned a valuable lesson. After a year of owning them I caught myself “going to the bathroom” and regularly playing a game called “Angry Birds”. In an epiphany I realized that having “finished” my bathroom business I sat there and kept playing 5, 10, 15 minutes after. This is called a “bad habit”, and it was getting worse. I realized this cell phone had power that needed mastering. My remedy, was to take all games off the phone…

The mini earth has grass which eventually morphs into circuit board green with IC chips and resistors. The trees growing from the circuit board are dead. The one living tree is growing from the grass, upon the rock and near the still waters. Your connection with Christ must be greater than the connection to your phone.

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