Time Well Spent, Or Not?

This is a sobering quote from Shaun Groves:

On your first day on the other side of the grave, do you think you’ll look back on this life and be flooded with gratitude for hours spent watching episodes of American Idol and Lost? Do you think you’ll look back fondly on the effort and money spent remodeling the kitchen? Do you think you’ll be glad you were up-to-date on the juicy details of celebrity lives? Will you be thankful for the hours, days, weeks, years you lived feeling victimized and sorry for yourself? Will you regret not spending more time at the office? Will you wish you had been more of a people pleaser? Will you miss your caffeine, porn or Facebook?

Me neither

I think that most of us should be convicted by this statement. If you’re not, then I either need to share the gospel with you or be discipled by you. Also, I found it interesting that he put Facebook and caffeine in the same category as porn. 

Tim Challies also has a good post that deals with our television consumption, primarily regarding retirees. 

Joseph Gleason has also recently posted about "ditching your television." Here is a brief excerpt:

Television works in much the same way [as breathing Carbon Monoxide]. It doesn't necessarily hurt you directly. You can watch nothing but "Little House on the Prairie" and "Leave it to Beaver" and go months without seeing sex or violence. So how could TV be bad?

The real question is, "What else could I do with my time if I wasn't sitting in front of the TV?" We only have 24 hours in a day. And two hours spent watching TV equals two hours spent not reading, not hiking, not having a conversation with neighbors, not romping with the children, not baking a cake, not playing a musical instrument and not making love to your spouse.

If you're like me, then this is the point at which you begin making excuses for yourself. Go ahead.