What Are We Looking At?

Death and Destruction are never satisfied, and neither are human eyes.
Proverbs 27:20 NIV

SPECTACLE: A MOMENT OF TIME, OF VARYING LENGTH, IN WHICH A COLLECTIVE GAZE IS FIXED ON SOME SPECIFIC IMAGE, OR VIDEO, OR EVENT. A SPECTACLE IS SOMETHING THAT CAPTURES HUMAN ATTENTION, AN INSTANT WHEN OUR EYES AND BRAINS FOCUS AND FIXATE ON SOMETHING PROJECTED AT US. —John Piper

We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.
HEBREWS 2:1 NIV

I. BE CAREFUL WHAT YOUR EYES BEHOLD.

II. TAKE A MOMENT AND EVALUATE:

1. HOW MUCH OF MY USE OF TECHNOLOGY IS AN ESCAPE AND WHAT AM I ESCAPING FROM?
2. DOES OUR SCREEN TIME LEAVE US REFRESHED OR DEPLETED?
3. IS MY USE OF TECHNOLOGY ENHANCING MY RELATIONSHIP WITH CHRIST, OR HINDERING IT?
4. HOW CONSISTENT IS MY DEVOTIONAL LIFE, READING THE WORD AND PRAYER?
5. IF IT IS NOT WHAT IT SHOULD BE, HOW MUCH TO BLAME IS MY USE OF TECHNOLOGY?
6. IS MY ABILITY/SELF-DISCIPLINE TO LISTEN TO A SERMON DIMINISHED BECAUSE I CANNOT SEEM TO NOT GO TO SOCIAL MEDIA WHEN I’M HEARING THE WORD.
7. DOES MY USE OF TECHNOLOGY ALLOW ME TO USE MY GOD-GIVEN TALENTS AS I SHOULD OR IS IT A DISTRACTION FROM WHAT GOD HAS CALLED ME TO DO?

III. BE CAREFUL THAT YOU DON’T DRIFT AWAY.

“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.
1 Corinthians 6:12 NIV