You know, we live in these boxes in our brains that we don't go outside of them. And like when you give yourself the opportunity to gaze even upon God's creation, it creates space for awe and worship. And we just get in our ruts and our routines, just our head always down. I mean, you know, it's proverbial now, but you go out in public and everyone. You see your family sitting at dinner at a restaurant, everyone's looking down, you know. And again, we're not saying it's wrong to use your phones.

They're gifts. They're a blessing. But are we so regimented in that habit that we don't break away and discover things that we lost? Yeah. Like a long time ago. We need to put boundaries on our phone because it refuses

to put boundaries on itself, right? I forget who was it that said that there's blessing within

the boundaries of God's precepts, right? If you want to be blessed by God, you have to stay within

his boundaries. You can't go outside of those boundaries to find, fill in the blank, right? Luke

chapter 8, verse 14, it describes those choked by the cares and the riches and the pleasures of life.

Notice it says choked. It doesn't say smothered or stabbed or struck. It's choked, slowly, silently, without drama, right? It's not going to argue with you.

So how do we now win this fight with our phones? Just one step at a time, right? Because it wants to

distract you from prayer and from reading and from learning.

And maybe we disguise it as learning.

I don't know if you guys are kind of like me.

Like in my Instagram, I will save posts and I'll put them inside of a folder.

And I will get to that folder on working out someday.

Right.

And in the meantime, that folder is called maybe arms or chest or legs. And it's filled with like a hundred different videos that I will never, ever, ever get to. So it's one thing at a time.

There's an addiction that I can feel with it. I may have mentioned this before many years ago on the podcast. When I was in Australia, it was Sue way back when I was 20 years old, my uncle took me to a casino, and I tried one of those one-arm bandits. You know what a one-arm bandit is? Do you? No, slot machine? Yeah, I don't think they've still got them. I think they're more automated. But I just felt that. And I put my money in him.

And stopped.

And I just couldn't.

For about five minutes there, I was absolutely addicted.

My point is my phone, especially on shorts, has that same feeling of addiction.

I cannot stop sometimes.

One off the other.

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