In this short video clip, well-known evangelist / missionary Paul Washer says it like it is. He is speaking to professing Christians who spend their time on the internet, playing to their vanity on Facebook, and generally wasting their lives.
There can be little doubt that the internet has replaced the TV as the great time-waster for the younger generation. Between video games, net surfing, and the Facebook craze, the computer has rivaled, if not replaced, the television for sheer wastefulness, worldliness and wickedness.
From my own experience with dealing with this issue, I have (generally) found that those who spend inordinate amounts of time ’surfing the net’, and posting their self-idolizing “look at me!” snippets on Facebook often combine the worst of characteristics. They become busybodies in the scriptural sense of the word, gossips, and are influenced by worldly fashion, standards and behaviour, while on the other hand become negligent about their Christian responsibilities as wives, husbands, parents, employees, etc. (See 1 Timothy 5:13)
What Paul Washer states here is worth hearing. Take the 4 minutes and listen. And then may God speak to your heart and apply this to you. Maybe it is something else in your life, (a recreation obsession?) that you are wasting your time and energies on. Whatever it is, remember that as Christians we are to “redeem the time”. Why? Because “the days are evil”.
To paraphrase Washer’s words, “Go out and live for something worth living for, and die for something worth dying for”.