As technology advances, so does sin.
I like technology. I majored in Electrical Engineering. I use technology everyday. I’m using technology to deliver this devotional to you. However, it can also be a vehicle for evil to pass down and accelerate the proliferation of sin as well.
Take envy for example. Before the internet days, you would never know if your friend who lives across the country bought a new house. Unless, of course, you talk to him/her frequently. But nowadays, everyone’s business is on social media, and we find out almost immediately if a friend bought a house, although we haven’t kept touch with that person in years….
So, we play this game of keeping up with the Joneses not only with those living in our neighborhood, but also with those living across the country whose lives are on display on social media. Our envy is multiplied. We now have to keep up with not only the Joneses, but also with the Edwards’, the Lewis’s, the Lees, the Millers, etc.
They said to each other, “Come, let us make oven-fired bricks.” And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky. Let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise, we will be scattered throughout the earth.”Genesis 11:3-4
The people of old used technology (brick baking) to build a tower in defiance of God’s command (God commanded them to spread out and multiply, but they decided to live in one place together). And sin multiplied as technology advanced…
If you can use the technology, while not succumbing to its evil, in order advance the kingdom of God, then good. However, if you find yourself filled with envy and playing the game of keeping up, then you don’t have control over it and perhaps the thing to do is to cut it off.
I almost never check my Facebook. Please don’t communicate with me via Facebook or any other social media. I am aware of my sin of envy…
PH