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It's so easy to get addicted to the world. In 1 Corinthians, Paul tells us that the way of the cross is a stumbling block, and it's as true today as it was then. The little hit of dopamine that comes from getting likes on social media or seeing the count of views on YouTube or whatever statistics they show on Instagram... that's a real influence. It shapes behavior, and it's hard to go against that. To choose to die to yourself daily is to choose a different route, to swim upstream, and it can be lonely. For the chief priests to turn away from the power offered by intimacy with Rome was too much to ask. All it cost them was to hand over Jesus Christ.
May we make wise choices, today and every day, and recognize that the ways of the world and the way of the cross don't always align. May we notice the ways that our soul pulls us, and may we have a community that gathers around us and helps us to choose the wiser path, no matter the cost, recognizing that the gain is eternal and worth the world.
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