Through today's technology, addictions can emerge in many
different forms. Anything that you spend a disproportionate amount of time
doing that begins to replace the important things in life can be considered an
addiction. Common addictions today include activities such as video gaming,
social media sites and role-playing games. Sometimes I may plan on spending
only two minutes on Facebook and ten minutes later I'm completely unaware of
how much time has past and how it happened. I know many of us face this
challenge and not just with Facebook. I have heard that game producers actually
try to make their games as addictive as possible. A sign of an addiction is
indulging yourself in a certain activity rather than spending time with family
or friends, sleeping at night, participating in social activities, gaining a
better education, or nurturing your spiritual needs. When a specific activity
takes over your life, you are in danger. Satan will try anything to get you to
skew your priorities causing you to waste time on the wrong tasks. When this
happens you lose sight of the eternal perspective drawing you farther from the
eternal goal. It is crucial that we all stay focused on seeing things as they really are and not become distracted
by the things of the world
