THE 10 COMMANDMENTS OF A DIGITAL LIFE
Make technology your servant, not your master.
Don’t compare your actual inside to another person’s virtual outside.
Don’t allow digital discontent to produce an ungrateful heart.
Post humbly.
Don’t confuse online popularity with authentic community.
Spend more time face-to-face than on Facebook.
Don’t write something online that you would not say to somebody’s face.
Behave on your little screen as if it is going to be seen on a big screen.
Take a break from technology on a regular basis.
Remember that who you are in Christ matters more than who you are online.
“I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but I will not be mastered by anything.”
I Corinthians 6:12 (NIV)
“Like money, social media is a great servant but a terrible master.” —Carey Nieuwhof
58% of people don’t go one waking hour without checking their phone.
59% of people check email as it comes in and 89% check it daily on vacation.
80% of teenagers sleep with their phones.
84% of people believe they couldn’t go one day without their phones.
1 You have searched me, Lord, and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar… 4 Before a word is on my tongue
you, Lord, know it completely… 8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. 9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, 10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
Psalm 139:1,2,4,8-10 (NIV)
“God, You have made us for Yourself, O Lord, and our soul is restless until it finds rest in You.” —St. Augustine
How can we find rest?
Be
Be still, and know that I am God…
Psalm 46:10
2.Be
A wise man thinks ahead; a fool doesn’t …
Proverbs 13:16 (TLB)
*22 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds; 24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. *
Ephesians 4:22-24 (NIV)
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The Lord said to his people: “You are standing at the crossroads. So consider your path. Ask where the old, reliable paths are. Ask where the path is that leads to blessing and follow it. If you do, you will find rest for your souls.”
Jeremiah 6:16 (NET)