Hi, and welcome to the Five Word Prayers Daily, a five-day-a-week daily devotional where we share the word,

prayers, and our heart. I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me,

which I trust and pray, will be five minutes well spent. It's friday. Yep, I said it. Oh, man.

I think every week I mention how much I adore Fridays because, well, I do.

But today we finish up this week's study of social media and the Bible's answer to it by showing us how we are all to live, which applies to all of life, yes, even social media.

Today we're going to wrap it up with what I believe is probably the hardest aspect of our online struggle, that of time spent in the social media. Today we're going to wrap it up with what I believe is probably the hardest aspect of our

online struggle, that of time spent in the social media space. Already stepping on toes, I know,

but stay with me because I think today's show just might be helpful to us. At least, I pray it will be.

I was in the kitchen the other day when my husband came home and he asked my son this question,

hey, how long have you been playing that video game?

And I was shocked because he answered it this way.

Oh, only about 20 minutes, dad.

The reason I was shocked was because I had been home with the boy all day and had actually been about two hours. But I knew that because he was sitting in front

of the game playing, he didn't even realize how much time had passed. And I could relate to that

because far too many times I myself have been scrolling on my phone or something like that. And I would

look up

and an entire hour had passed and I couldn't even believe it. It's just what happens sometimes.

Any of us who are on social media know it's true. Social media can be the biggest time suck in

this world. We can scroll mindlessly for hours. We can be looking at something and then click something else and

wind up on a whole different site, reading something about something completely unrelated to anything

in our life or that we even cared about in the first place. We click on this picture, which leads us to

that picture, and down there's rabbit hole. And you know what I'm talking about. The list goes on and on and on.

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