Today we will look at how we change the way we use our cell phones to bring us closer to Jesus. and said, “Truly I say to you, unless you change and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 18:3. If we are to use our cell phones to bring us closer to Jesus, we need to change the way we use our cell phones. I keep mentioning it and I had you do an app evaluation before we started this series to get rid of the apps that bring you farther away from Jesus but that is only the tip of the iceberg of what we need to do to change how we use our cell phones. Jesus was going through all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness. Matthew 9:35. When Jesus went out, He did not teach just to do this one thing and it will all be good. When Jesus went out, He preached and taught many things in order that people would come and follow him and worship Him and bring them closer to Him. With that, we have to use many things to change the way we use our cell phones to bring us closer to Jesus.
What is the first you do when you pick up your cell? probably to look at who has texted you and emailed you or called you. But what if the first thing we did with our cell phones was to seek Jesus and His Kingdom. So, the first thing is to see what we do on our first pick up and change what it is we do on our first pick up. Instead of Facebook the bible app, instead of emails the daily devotion app you may have and never use, instead of Amazon the music app that has only Christian music on it. To do this we need to train our brains to do this, we need to pray for God to help us change the way we first pick up our phones. it will not be easy but anything that involves worshipping Jesus is not easy. we need to put effort into this and every time we pick up our cell phones resist the urge to do what we have always done and instead Seek Jesus on our phones.
We all have to use our cell phones for things that do not bring us closer to Jesus and we have to use it for those things. I am not saying only use your cell phone for Jesus but to be mindful of what you do on your cell phone. This leads to the second one and that is to be mindful of what you are doing on your cell phone. If you know that you will need to use your cell phone for something that could you lead you away from Jesus be mindful of that and limit what you have to do to the essentials only. If you use Facebook, Amazon, Instagram, or anything else a lot be mindful of that and limit your time using those apps so you can use more apps that bring you closer to Jesu or on those apps that you can because not all can do this, the content that you are getting have it be more Christian than worldly. always be mindful of what you are doing on your phones. Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. 1 Corinthians 16:1. we always need to be on our guard, be alert and be mindful of what we are doing staying strong in what we are doing so that we will become closer to Jesus
In a race, if you veer off track you have to get back on track to finish the race. Just like a race if we veer off on our cell phones we need to get back on track. That is the third point, we may veer off, but we need to discern when we are veering off and correct it. Not one person who is living other than Jesus is perfect and can say they are. We will veer off from time to time but we need to know that we can get back on course, that just because we veer off doesn't mean that we cannot get back on track. When you start a race you start off strong, it is not how you start but how you finish the race. So as you start, finish in the same way strong so that you can become closer To Jesus and worship Him more.
Come close to God and He will come close to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. James 4:8. If we want God to come close to us we have to come close to Him first. To do this we need to change what we do in our lives and that included how we use our cell phones to bring us closer to God.
All Bible verses taken from the NASB
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