Article by: Peyor Humphrey
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One of the hardest tasks in this 21st
century is for the youth to spend 30 minutes without touching their phones!
Almost everyone is now a phone addict. It’s the last thing you touch before you
sleep at night.
It’s the first thing you touch when you
wake up at dawn.
Some even put on earpiece overnight(you can imagine the stupidity).
Some still wake up at night to download
films, but they can’t wake up for prayers.
Some are always online chatting.
As early as 6am they are online, and
they remain online till midnight.
They have thousands of online friends with whom they chat, but they don’t relate with their families at home.
They isolate themselves in their rooms.
Some argue till midnight about
unnecessary issues in their various online
groups, yet they have a lot of things they
need from God. We go to bed late, and have
no time for God. We sleep and snore!
Immediately after prayers , you see
people pressing their phones again, no time
to share the grace! As if all our past and
future sins have already been forgiven!
When accidents happen, instead of
saving lives, you see people taking pictures
of the victims with their phones.
When a house is on fire, instead of
quenching it, you see people taking pictures
so as to be the first to upload it on social
network.
When a person loses a loved one, instead of thinking about the funeral issues, the first thing the person does is to upload the news on social network. Perhaps for comments!
We are so addicted to phones! We even
chat when we are on motorcycles.
Some still chat in the exam halls.
Some play games with their phones when they are in church
Along the road, some keep pressing their phones, until perhaps they narrowly dodge an accident, or until a banana peel slips
them.
Even when we have guests, we still
concentrate on our phones than our guest.
Some ignore their spouses because they
are chatting with “mere friends” on
Facebook or Whatsapp!
Seriously, God is annoyed.