Life Line

Day after day, I walk around the neighborhood, travel on buses, Elevated and  Metra trains staring at people of all ages on their cell phones. I sometimes go ballistic when I hear them yelling on their phones in grocery stores because I hear people’s personal discussions and it is annoying to say the least. The cell phone is with people night and day, and I see them holding the phone in their hands like they expect a phone call momentarily. I read an article on the Internet where the writer states he thinks people use the phone in order to keep people at a distance. Have we become a generation of phone huggers rather than people huggers?  I will bet you that a lot of people have their cell phone on the pillow next to them so they can answer in the middle of the night. This wasn’t true before the cell phone and other technologies. I believe there are some people who could not live without their phone.

I call them “Techno Freaks,” not because they are bad or strange but because they are dangerous when technology takes over their lives. They are dangerous when driving, either talking or texting. They are dangerous while riding a bike or motorcycle. They are dangerous to all of us who want to stay alive.

But the greatest danger is technology becoming people’s God. It must be a life line for some people.

As a Christian, we should be concerned with contacting our life line, Jesus Christ. We should be contacting Him daily. Without Jesus and his precious Blood our life would be pretty dark. We need people concerned about the lost and shed darkness by attracting people to the light. We are the light of the world.