The AHa! Blog

OK, so this is a new message that I feel like God is putting on my heart and mind.

I think we’re really bored. Our decadence has created free time. We don’t have to spend time doing basic tasks and as a result, have more to explore.

The entertainment industry is constantly exploding. For being a tool to make life easier, computers sure take up a lot of our time. We have YouTube, Hulu, and Netflix. We own smartphones, tablets, and have GPS units in our car. We have access to a world of information with Wikipedia and access to so many locations with the Interstate highway system.

And yet, we’re bored. We say we have nothing to do. I’d say this is a result of our core tasks taking little time. We have so much more time to worry about things that amount to frivolity.

We are over stimulated and when we’re adequately engaged, it’s still too little. It’s led to human rights groups fighting for gay marriage before fighting sex trafficking and world hunger. I’d even speculate that sexual exploration (pornography, pre-marital sex, homosexuality) has been on the rise because we’re bored. We break up with people because we’re tired of who they are. We want somebody new. We can’t handle the same old constructs and need to create our own. We need new devices to captivate our attention.

This is really just a cursory look at what I’ve seen. I can’t say that I have a solution, or even am myself safe from this problem. What do you think though? Are you bored? What do you fill your time with? How much of your sin happens because you “have nothing else to do?”