Confessions of a Blog addict

by Christine on January 27, 2009

I suspect there are a lot of us out there; Christians addicted to blog reading, Twittering, Facebooking, Digging… the list goes on. I would be preaching to the choir if I spent much time talking about the benefits of blogs and social media. We Christian addicts know the good. Problems arise when the good turns into an addiction. Particularly if it keeps us from God’s word and God’s work.

It’s tempting to view this as a new problem. We may blame technology, the immediate gratification of services like Twitter, the social distance allowed through Facebook, the desire to make a name for oneself through Digg. That’s an easy out. The problem is age old – long before Facebook, much older than Twitter, even before the Internet.

Here’s Horatius Bonar (1808-1889) from his Words to Winners of Souls

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We have not duly studied and honored the Word of God. We have given a greater prominence to man’s writings, man’s opinions, man’s systems in our studies than to the Word. We have drunk more out of human cisterns than divine. We have held more communion with man than God. Hence the mold and fashion of our spirits, our lives, our words, have been derived more from man than God. We must study the Bible more. We must steep our souls in it. We must not only lay it up within us, but transfuse it through the whole texture of the soul.

The problem is we do not duly study and honor the Word of God. We give greater prominence to man’s writings, man’s opinions, and man’s systems than to the Word. Couldn’t have said it better.

What’s the answer? It starts with prioritizing the Word of God. It’s getting up in the morning and opening my Bible and not my browser. It’s a struggle for my soul, a spiritual battle every day.

First in a series on blog addiction and the fight for our soul

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