Screen Protector
Do you have a screen protector for your phone? You may even have one of those phone tanks, also know as, a case that can protect it from a nuclear explosion. Ever since I have owned my first smart phone, it has had a screen protector on it. After a few months I replaced it. When I pulled off the old one it was all scratched up and hazy. It did it’s job protecting the phone screen from my spare change, keys, drops, and everything else about my life that can be hard on things. When I looked at my phone, it was still brand new. The screen was perfect. A phone screen protector is a very simple addition. It is just a piece of plastic with a sticky side.
We are willing to go out of our way to protect our phones. Are we willing to go out of the way to protect our lives? Are we willing to do small things to protect our spiritual lives? Screen protectors in our lives take the brunt of the abuse so we do not take them directly. What is a life screen protector? Any method, habit, object, etc that we put in the way of us and temptation to sin. My objective is not to list a bunch of rules to help you obey the rules. Rules on rules only mess things up. What I am talking about are putting practices in place to guard yourself. These practices are for you. These are not things that you force on someone else. That promotes legalism.
One example that I use, at home I leave my email, Facebook, etc open on my computer. This leaves these items open for my wife to see. This leaves me accountable for my correspondence. The things I do with my life naturally bring on correspondence with people. Many are women. Do I have to do this? Of course not. If I did not, I would not be sinning. The idea is to give me an extra buffer if I am tempted to head down a road I do not need to travel. Even if I closed them, I am pretty sure my wife knows my password. This “transparency” stands between myself and temptation. If my wife all of a sudden notices that I have closed everything and changed the passwords, she then can confront me.
Rest assured that I only do this on my home computer. Plus, my computer has a password. If you get any ideas coming over to my house, forget it.
It is true someone could abuse this screen protector and hack my Facebook while at my house. The “scratches” that I would receive on this protector pale in comparison to the “scratches” that could be permanently applied to my actual screen because I gave in to temptation.
Do you “screen protect” your life?
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Good points Trevor! You could add this to a page of a book about marriage
Thanks for the kind words. Dewitt, I am thankful to have you as a reader.
Great word. Our family definitely does. We do not have a computer in our house without a filter on it. It gives everyone peace of mind and accountability.