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Once upon a time I deleted my facebook account. I was spending too much time on it, and it mostly made me unhappy. And what do you know. I gravitated towards the news websites. And then those made me unhappy.<\/p>\n

The problem was that it was my attitude that needed to be changed, and not the symptoms.<\/p>\n

It’s so obvious, really. Simplicity.<\/p>\n

If I get unhappy because of social media, the reason and the cure are very easy to see. ?I’ve been spending more time on those then time with Jesus.<\/p>\n

Simple.<\/p>\n

Not easy, that one. I try to memorize the Sermon on the Mount, but I have to pull myself from my tea, my novel, instagram, the cookie cabinet, or my thoughts.<\/p>\n

Everything in me resists. The more I do it, the more that relationship with God grows, the more I go to God. The more I look forward to spend time with Him.<\/p>\n

But out of myself, if I’m just going along without thinking?<\/p>\n

It seems more work, it seems more boring, it seems harder. I’ll do it later. Not right now. Later is always a good time.<\/p>\n

Some days the words delight me. Some days?they don’t say anything at all. Then I want something easy, a romance novel or a movie, something I can lose myself in.<\/p>\n

And then I read Hebrews 12:
\nTherefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking utno jesus, the author an finisher of our faith, who for the joy that wa sset before him endured the cross , despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.<\/p>\n

And Philipians 4:8
\n<\/sup>Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable?if anything is excellent or praiseworthy?think about such things.<\/p>\n

If I am losing myself in something other than God, I need to take care of that. Whether that is by deleting Facebook or by disciplining myself to not be on it as much.<\/p>\n

And then I need to lose myself in God. In His word and His face, looking at Him while running this race.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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This part is part of a series:<\/a><\/p>\n

\"compassion-bloggers-motherhood\"<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Once upon a time I deleted my facebook account. I was spending too much time on it, and it mostly made me unhappy. And what do you know. I gravitated towards the news websites. And then those made me unhappy.<\/p>\n

The problem was that it was my attitude that needed to be changed, and not the symptoms.<\/p>\n

It’s so obvious, really. Simplicity.<\/p>\n

If I get unhappy because of social media, the reason and the cure are very easy to see. ?I’ve been spending more time on those then time with Jesus.<\/p>\n

Simple.<\/p>\n

Not easy, that one. I try to memorize the Sermon on the Mount, but I have to pull myself from my tea, my novel, instagram, the cookie cabinet, or my thoughts.<\/p>\n

Everything in me resists. The more I do it, the more that relationship with God grows, the more I go to God. The more I look forward to spend time with Him.<\/p>\n

But out of myself, if I’m just going along without thinking?<\/p>\n

It seems more work, it seems more boring, it seems harder. I’ll do it later. Not right now. Later is always a good time.<\/p>\n

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