The "digital cocaine"

This is going to be spur of the moment and hard to read, but I'm tired and I hope it makes sense. Its kind of a rant. But I felt a need to do it right now, so if it speaks to you, its not me that really said it.

One of the reasons I have not been on the internet is because I am trying to kick the digital cocaine.

The hardcore drugs that ruins peoples lives aren't found on the streets, they are found in the phone in your pocket, they are on the tablet or computer on the table.

The internet is a great way to connect, but it has an even greater power to ruin your usefulness and you productivity.

A few years back I got off Facebook
-reasons why

I got of instragram
-selfish gratification
-following on girls i liked
-each hit or I would wait for new posts
-made me disatisfied with life

YouTube-ive been fighting still
-im more determined than ever to not let it ruin me
-so so much time, even doing educational things wasn't enough, the focal was still virtual
-I still couldv'e spent that time in hours of prayer, or study, or working on my family or friend relationships
-instead i was again searching and scrolling till I got my next hit

Pinterest/snapchat/ect.

-I keep mentioning these "hits" but these hits are everywhere, that what the internet companies use to draw you, or "hook" you become like a junky

-I have had an experience with porn addiction, and the same scrolling till i was satisfied, the same feeling I get from these websites reminds me exactly of what it feels like when I mindlessly scroll and surf through pinterest pictures, or facebook/instagram profiles, or youtube videos. Always that next hit, and I always wondered why I was weaker against resisting porn urges after I was on social media, or youtube, its because the same base animal passion that leads me to indulge in sin is activated by this indulgence and over stimulation/

 Social media is a stimulant, just like caffeine, to get you hooked, gives you pockets of highs, and leaves you yearning, for more, and we come back for more. The modern cocaine, the modern caffeine is the on the internet, we find ourselves craving the next post from a certain someone or the next video from that channel, or a new "dream" idea to pin to our board... its all a fake life, we aren't doing the things on the videos, no one looks as good as they do online, we know deep down its just castle building to think we will make money to afford traveling the world, so why do we keep fantasizing, why do we feed our carnality?

Our desire is perverted. We were designed for greater things. Go read Patriarchs and Prophets, the chapter "School of the Prophets", and chew on it.

The devil has his "School of the World" online, and we have entered in our emails.

We escape to this virtual world before we escape to the arms of our Savior.

We get spare time and we don't pray, we pull out our phone.

Tell me I am wrong. We love the world far to much, and we love these idols to much to change.

God has big plans for you, you just need to stop wasting your time and go to Jesus, He is waiting.

Now go read that chapter. Then pray and by His grace reform. Then press on.