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Texting while driving is a form of visual, manual, and cognitive distraction. “The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reports that driving while texting is six times more dangerous than driving drunk. Reading or sending a text takes your eyes off the road for about five seconds.”[1] Ninety-three percent of drivers surveyed by AAA in 2022 recognized the extreme danger of driving while texting, yet 37% admitted to reading texts and emails and 27% to typing while driving.[2] I confess I am one of those transgressors. My worst accident occurred while fumbling to answer my cell phone while wrongly proceeding through what I thought was a two-way stop intersection.
Meditation Joshua 23:6,7--Be very strong! Carefully obey all that is written in the law scroll of Moses so you won’t swerve from it to the right or the left, or associate with these nations that remain near you. You must not invoke or make solemn declarations by the names of their gods! You must not worship or bow down to them! (New English Translation) Joshua knew by experience that if his countrymen followed God’s laws, they would prosper. But if they took their eyes off the law and compromised His truth with the idolatry of the people around them, they would swerve and suffer dire consequences. Swerving is dangerous because we don’t think anything wrong will happen. Our eyes are briefly distracted, and the next thing we know, disaster strikes! Too often, swerving is based on compromise. What harm is there in dating someone who does not love Jesus? What’s wrong with privately viewing adult sites? So what if our language is occasionally perverse? Who cares if we want to identify as a different sex? If we only get drunk once in a blue moon, what’s the big deal? I can do what I want is the swervers’ mantra. Beware of deifying excuses. Don’t permit anything immoral, unethical, or illegal to replace truth. Don’t swerve. Be strong by doing what is right, and be blessed because God is glorified. Inspiration “When distractions become our satisfaction, they can start to destroy the trajectory of God’s calling in our life.”—Zach Clinton in Even If ©2024 Daniel York ARR. Reveration is the weekly devotional ministry of First Cause. To receive these devotionals, go to www.firstcause.org and click the “Click here to receive weekly devotionals” box. Unlimited permission to copy this devotional without altering text or profiteering is allowed, subject to the inclusion of this copyright notice. Ecclesiastes 12:10-The Teacher sought to find delightful sayings and to accurately write words of truth. (Holman CSB) [1]https://www.google.com/search?q=is+texting+while+driving+like+being+impaired%3F&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS733US884&oq=is+texting+while+driving+like+being+impaired%3F&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i64.13209j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 [2] Ibid
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David Scot Knecht
4/21/2024 11:06:20 am
What is usually behind our swerving? Let's face it. Worldliness and covetousness are difficult temptations to resist. But we are given a remedy by St. James. "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you."
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