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Wrong App

At times I find myself mindlessly looking through social media.  I go to Facebook, look around, and close the app.  I then open Twitter, look around, and close the app.  I may then open Instagram and do the same.  Then it's back to Facebook. Often I do this and feel empty.  I feel like I am searching for something and can't find it.

Meanwhile, all the answers are one app over.  The emptiness I feel is fulfilled in this app. The search ends in this app. It's the one stop shop that can fill me up.  That app is the Bible app. One tiny little app holds the entirety of the Bible-in multiple translations, Bible study tools, videos, and much much more.  God's truth is presented in numerous ways so I can understand.  So, I can find what I'm searching for.

Seems like a microcosm of our human existence.  We chase after things and stuff. We chase a successful career or the world's definition of the perfect family. We try to keep up with the neighbors. We seek after joy from things of this earth. We place our hope in people.  We show up for a couple of hours on Sunday and throw out hands in the air to worship. Then the other 166 hours of the week we chase after the empty promises of this world.  In the end we feel empty. Like we are searching for something and can't find it.  

We are looking in the wrong app.  We are looking for the wrong things to fulfill our hunger for peace and joy.  Nothing of this world can give us hope and joy like the love of our heavenly father, Jesus Christ.  What the world offers is empty lies. Only the Father offers what you crave. Only the life of Jesus can fill our emptiness.

Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you. For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world. And this world is fading away, along with everything that people crave. But anyone who does what pleases God will live forever.

1 John 2:15‭-‬17 NLT

Be blessed and be a blessing,

Matt














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