Fillers

As my parents and I sit in one of their favorite restaurants, Puerta Vallarta, (NO JOKE) I look across to another table of a mom and a daughter waiting for their food, BOTH on electronic devices. This picture of a mom and daughter bonding (my guess is that these get togethers don't occur often) over dinner yet not speaking to each other, only to pay more attention to a screen, saddened me. Is this really what our world is coming to?

Again, I sit and wait in a waiting room or in Starbucks and see that EVERY single person is looking at this little 3" screen...where's the face to face interaction (don't persuade me that FaceTime fixes that)?!?! Would it be possible that people talk more to Siri than to actual people?

This introduction may be more of a stretch, but I just challenge those who are glued to their phones and other devices to take a self-assessment and see where you're spending your time. I have an iPhone too and I fall short too, filling my time with playing Fruit Ninja or Words With Friends. But, as I find that I'm guilty of technology's advancements, I also should be including God in my every day situations, not Siri.  This is daily devotional is one BIG reason why I'm becoming more aware of what I'm filling my time with:

As workers for God we have to learn to make room for God – to give God "elbow room." We calculate and estimate, and say that this and that will happen, and we forget to make room for God to come in as He chooses. Would we be surprised if God came into our meeting or into our preaching in a way we had never looked for Him to come? Do not look for God to come in any particular way, but look for Him. That is the way to make room for Him. Expect Him to come, but do not expect Him only in a certain way. However much we may know God, the great lesson to learn is that at any minute He may break in. We are apt to over look this element of surprise, yet God never works in any other way. All of a sudden God meets the life – "When it was the good pleasure of God . . ."

Keep your life so constant in its contact with God that His surprising power may break out on the right hand and on the left. Always be in a state of expectancy, and see that you leave room for God to come in as He likes. - Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

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Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable - if anything is excellent or praiseworthy - THINK about such things. Philippians 4:8