Practical Daily Devotions for the Real World

Practical Daily Devotions for the Real World

We all live in a world that is awash with news, opinions, and content. In general, I love it. I have lived without Google. I have lived when there wasn't such a thing as the internet.

I love the fact that I can access information with a few clicks of my mouse. I love that I can carry my entire music collection in one small device rather than cases of cassettes. I love being able to get my news from a diversity of viewpoints.

However, the management of information has never been harder. It is easy to fall down the rabbit hole of meaningless links. One funny YouTube video can consume an hourexploring all the related videos on the side bar. There is the temptationtotaste all the offerings but never enough timefor a full meal. We are forced to glide over the surface of most of the available information due to the overwhelming volume. We surf past the majority of the content since there is not enough time in the day to Cyber Monday Michael kors Deal truly consume it. However, it is hard to learn how to pick and choose.

It is so easy to become lost in the process of being informed.

It is so easy to walk in the counsel of worldly digital pundits.

It is so easy to silently revel in the debauchery of the famous.

It is so easy to nod along with theskeptic.

I was curious what content was most sought this last year. So, I did a little Google ing and this what I Black Friday Michael Kors Outlet found:

Top Searches on Yahoo in 2013:

where are the most popular seats being occupied?

Are not Miley Cyrus, the Kardashians, and Fifty Shades of Grey merely glamorizing the ways of sinners?Aren offered by mundodasaves.com Richard Dawkins and his like all in the amphitheater of the scoffers? The Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, Grand Theft Auto revel inwickedness. I am thankful that the Bible topped the list of books but I wonder how many who typed that search topic spend their days and nights meditating upon it.

I am reminded of my need to guard my heart. The internet opens us to many forms of counsel, divergent norms, and normalization of deviating mores. We all need to be careful to prevent the wave of internetcontent and information from replacing Cyber Monday Michael Kors Deals our time in meditation upon the word of the Lord. I can be influenced more than I care to admit. We are all buffeted by the changing winds of our culture and society. We must be careful and intentional about the content that we immerse ourselves in.

I hope that my top counselor of the 2013 was the Spirit of God.

I hope that the primary way that I stood along this Black Friday Michael Kors Bag year was that of the righteous.

I hope that the seat I occupied most frequently was that of the one wise in the Lord.

I know that I did not meditate on the precise gift of God's word like I could have. Too often, I skimmed and perused. We all must develop a strategy so that we will not be overwhelmed into indifference by the influences flowing onto our electronic devices throughout the day and night. For me, this blog is one of my primary methods to help me increase my depth and duration of meditating on scripture. I know that I amlike John Piper in this regard:

I count myself as one of the number of those who learn as they write and write as they learn.

John Piper, Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of God

Writing helps burrow my mind into the word. Reading through the Bible www.8msoccer.com in a year (or two) and writing blog posts of what jumps out at me has been the best way for me to discipline myself. It has created a strategy for me to prioritize God's Word above all the other influential content that is vying for my attention andmy soul.