Welcome to 10-minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life.

In the time it takes to get to work. I'm Keith Simon.

The blue light burns your retinas as you wake up to your digital sunrise. Notifications

flutter across the screen. Texts, snaps, comments. They chirp like morning birds.

You tell yourself, you'll check just one thing. Five minutes turns into 10, and then 15.

Finally, you trudge into the sunlight like a vampire, blinded, drained, technically awake, but your

soul is still dead asleep. Your phone stays nearby

all day. It hums in your pocket. It vibrates on your desk. You swipe when you work. You swipe when

you eat, when you're bored, when you're tired, when you're stressed. You swipe when you avoid something.

You swipe when you're trying to numb out. You swipe when there's nothing to do and when there is

something to do it's not just habit anymore it's muscle memory you don't use social media you exist in it

and what if you gained a low-grade anxiety that never quite leaves a mind doled by overconsumption

a soul that's always on edge, always scrolling, always hungry.

You want to quit, you long to quit, but you just keep swiping, drifting down the algorithm's lazy

river, too apathetic to grab hold of the edge and ask the one question that really matters.

What am I swiping for?

You swipe for guidance. For affirmation,

you swipe for a sense of identity. You swipe to figure out who you are, where you're going,

why it matters. You swipe for a story to belong to. A thrill to chase. A moment of relief. You swipe

to feel something. Anything. You swipe for peace. You swipe for attention, for hope,

you swipe for love, you swipe for what? For more? And whether you know it or not, whether you'll

admit it or not, every swipe you take is really a swipe for God. That nameless urge to swipe,

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