Back in April, we surveyed readers of DesiringGod.org, 8,000 of you responded.

Thank you for the amazing amount of input you gave us and of the total responses we received,

over 50% of those who have a smartphone admit to checking their phones within minutes

of waking up in a typical morning.

During readers 18 to 29, that number is over 60%.

Most of us know a pattern like this of checking email and texts and social media on our phones

immediately in the morning is not a healthy pattern, but we do it anyways, Pastor John.

So why do you think grabbing for our phones in the morning is a default reaction for

many of us and do you have a better way forward?

I think there is a better course, but to help everybody understand why I think that

and what that better course is, it might be helpful to start, and maybe this would be today's

podcast, to start by analyzing why we are so prone to click on our phones before we do almost

anything else.

So I thought of six possible reasons why we do this.

And I got these reasons out of my head by analyzing John Piper's soul and his temptations.

I haven't done any survey, so if people think this is narrow, they well, yeah, it is.

It comes out of me and if people are like me, then they might get help.

It seems to me that all of these six things, I'm going to say are rooted in sin rather

than rooted in the desire to serve others and savor God.

And I put it like that because I do think the great commandment does set the agenda for

our mornings and our midday and our evening.

We are to love God with all of our heart, soul, mind, strength when we wake up in the morning.

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