The internet has made life easier for mankind than before. It has saved the believer of acquiring a handful manual bible. Old time believers or even some believers of today wouldn’t see it as a burden because indeed that was where we were as a world and that was what we had available and so we had to manage it. The earlier day Christians had to sacrifice to study the scroll and later the bible because the Rhema or spirit of the Word of God can only be derived by studying.
Did the creators of the internet did us good by creating bible download applications and online websites that can get us the bible to read online? I am of the strongest opinion that, a Christian or believer who is serious will maintain his discipline whiles reading or studying the bible online. Yet, what do we see? What are the chances that the believer will abrogate his bible reading and go to a favorite website?
It is understood that, most people visit their emails, whatsapp and attend to other matters on their mobile phones before they touch their bibles. Some who have not mastered their Christian disciplines before may not even open the bible at all. Why because, the internet is the central attraction on every piece of mobile phone. The tendency to open a browser is higher than opening a bible application. However, a Christian who means business knows that, he must do his quiet time, talk to his God, read his bible before any other thing. It must be a discipline. If the believer is still mastering his discipline to make the bible his first thing in the morning, at least he must read his bible by all means before the close of day. That is consciousness.
Debbie Walker’s Koinonia website (medium.com) has suggested that, addiction to television and browsing mediums has greatly affected the prayer and bible study disciplines of the believer that is extensive in its ramifications. Television is a highly enticing medium because of the visual images. Depending on what is telecasted, if it’s a favorite program of the believer, it can take his attention for a long time. Besides its informative tendencies, television is one tool that the enemy can use to deceive the believer away from studying his bible. If you’re not careful, these eyes will want to watch everything. If the believer does not consciously determine a schedule that regulates his life he could be caught up by anything on screen. If in place of bible, the believer listens or watches television programs that educates him on scriptures in the word of God, it’s a perfect alternative.
Today, the mobile phone is just as a portable television set in the hands of the modern-day believer. It can attract the television antennas of other networks, it has television apps and various compartments that distributes it pictures in the form of normal television. The believer must be extra careful therefore to choose exactly what he wants and where he must go on his phone. Certainly these browsing mediums can distract at the least moment and believers must be focused in their choices whiles using a phone that was created to make their Christian life easier but not to destroy it.
Must the believer get rid of his mobile phone bible app and go with a manual bible? Not really. Believers who are strong-willed and can maintain their discipline can keep the mobile phone bible app. If it’s a believer that is relevant with today’s technology greatly assisting his work, the bible app could be the best option that can help with quick references, research and get back to work. On the contrary, the believer who is aware that it could be a huge challenge concentrating on his Christian practices on his mobile phone, it is advisable to put his mobile phone away and get glued to his manual bible.
Remember that, the believer must be diligent with his spiritual practices which keeps him in constant position to maintain the hedge and so whatever has the potential of taking him out must be rejected as much. Laziness must not be entertained therefore in anyway. One that will jeopardize his discipline of maintaining the hedge.
