(Reverse approach—not listing the three things first, with the question, “What do they have in common ?”)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SIN
-1- Sin takes you more places than you intended to go.
-2- Sin keeps you places longer than you intended to stay.
-3- Sin costs you more than you intended to pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
PHONE (ETC.)
-1- ‘Phone’ takes you more places than you intended to go, faster and faster and faster, before you realize it happens, without your intent or consent.
-2- ‘Phone’ keeps you longer than you intended to stay, and you waste more time, over and over and over, and you don’t notice until it is too late.
-3- ‘Phone’ costs you more than you intended to pay—in lost time, productivity, guilt, relationships, idleness – to – idolatry, control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SHOPPING
I thought of this analogy while grocery shopping.
-1- The thousands of choices in American grocery stores (and others) is unnatural, unhealthy, and pushes you to consider more than you intended.
-2- The grocery trip always takes longer than you intended (true for me).
-3- More than you intended to pay ?
You tell the cashier, “I can’t believe I spent this much.”
Your bank account says, “I can’t believe you spent this much.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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