John Piper reads my blog!

Okay, probably not. But here's the deal:

I posted a few days ago about something that has made a huge impact on my life recently. I talked about my iPhone and for all the good that it does.. it also is a danger. Check it out here- Day 17: Impacts.

I was reading a few blogs this morning and saw this post from John Piper. "Beware: The Bible is about to Threaten Your Smartphone Focus".

You can read the full post by clicking the link above but just to take the main points here:

Are apps a threat to God-focus? Yes. But it works both ways. Fight fire with fire.

If you are reading your Bible on your computer or your smartphone or your iPad, the presence of the email app and the news apps and the Facebook app threaten every moment to drag your attention away from the word of God.

True. Fight that. If your finger offends you, cut it off. Or use any other virtuous violence that sets you free to rivet your soul on God.

But don’t take mainly a defensive posture. Fight fire with fire.

Why should we think of the Facebook app threatening the Bible app? Why not the Bible app threatening the Facebook app, and the email app, and the RSS feeder, and the news?

Resolve that today you will press the Bible app three times during the day. No five times. Ten times! Maybe you will lose control and become addicted to Bible! Again and again get a two-minute dose of life-giving Food. Man shall not live by Facebook alone.

Great encouragement. Owning an iPhone definitely has an obsessive component to it. It's just so easy to access everything; however, am I more obsessed checking my email or the lastest tweets from my friends or the life-giving truth of God's word? Let's all take John's challenge and resolve today that we will gravitate more toward our swords than our social media.