When convenience can become a loss....

This morning I pray for the strength to not only be able to encourage other hearts, but to also take my own advice. Its hard at times to stay focused and I admit take my own advice, but hear me out and we can all pray our Father strengthens both me and you. So I speak today on the terms: convenience (suitability for performing an action or fulfilling an requirement) , and when it can become a loss (the state or fact of being destroyed).

This was laid on my heart this morning because I realized how important my cell phone was to me just recently. I use it as alarm clock, not only to wake me up but also to remind me take my meds every morning, afternoon, and night; reminder of an upcoming event(someones b-day soon!); to check my email- you never know when your child's teacher might need to get in touch with you or other important communications from the school; its my tip calculator; a voice recorder-don't lose out on any more of those great ideas/ or important task you don't have time to write down; I can check the weather, surf the web, search the yellow pages for an address or phone number, listen to one of my favorite songs-its a MP3 player!, snap a quick photo-Isn't this sun set absolutely beautiful?

Did I forget to mention a navigation system! I must admit I still get lost far to often being a Charlotte resident of almost 4 years and I hate the forks in the road. One day I hope to get the Sunset exits 16A and B right!

So getting to my point of this post is that my cell phone is a convenience for me and many many others in this day and age and sometimes we seem to get a little too comfortable with this convenience, taking shortcuts and cutting corners and losing out on the real purpose or intention of a specific task and we can't figure out why we don't get the same results as we would if we didn't have this convenience. We sometimes allow these possessions to destroy us or make us lose sight of goals or everyday purpose.

If you also have been blessed with an material object or resource, be thankful, be appreciative of those blessing and don't become greedy. I am grateful that I have the resources to help me along the way, but not so dependent on them to control my every move or activity. I choose to not get so comfortable because it can be destroyed at any given time never to be available again. This is not only for cell phones but for whatever material object in your life that you are becoming too dependent upon.

Proverbs 12:27

The lazy man does not roast his game, but the diligent man prizes his possessions.