distracted.

Ok so has anyone ever noticed how sometimes when you walk into a room that has the television on you forget about what it is was you were doing before you walked into that room? And then fifteen minutes later it's like you wake up and realize that there is life going on around you and you just zoned out.

Its amazing to me how television is like an uncontrollable force in our lives!  

For the past two days in a row I have sat in the living room at my parents house and done absolutely nothing but watch television.  I justified my actions by saying that I have gone nonstop for three weeks in a row and needed some down time - which is true for the most part - but still, Im positive that there are much more productive things I could have done.  What did people do before television?  I come home in the evening and turn it on and don't move from that couch until David Letterman comes on and its time to go to bed... Is there nothing else I could have done for four hours?  

I think my thought behind all of this television talk is that in the past two days I have come to the realization that the tv controls much of how I think, and act, and talk... And that is all due to how much time I spend watching it... And don't get me wrong, I am not bashing on television here, I love television as much as the next person... But it got me thinking about how different of a person I would be if I gave God's Word as much time as I give television.  Do I trust Gods Word to be as powerful and transforming in my life as I do the tv?  Maybe you don't watch that much television, but my guess would be that there is a "television god" for everyone of us.  Anyone have any thoughts?