Torn From The Headlines

To understand what this is about, check out this link here. It's a news story that was on yahoo news earlier this morning, maybe still up there depending on when you read it, but doubtful because yahoo changes its news stories so much (except that one on Bill O'Reilly I talked about last time). What has happened in this news story in case you don't want to watch it, or if they pull it before you can?
It is a news story out of California of a woman whose husband passed away in the past year or so (I believe that is when it was, just recently). And since his passing she has gotten a facebook account. Of course she's upset because in the relationship status identifier, it doesn't have anything for widow. Of course it has something for single, which technically is what she is. In traditional weddings, which I don't know if she had, it states you are married until death do you part. So this woman has started a campaign and even joined a group to get facebook to change that status and add an option for widow.
Now why do I bring this up besides the fact that this woman seems like a complete idiot to me? Okay, maybe not an idiot, but a fool no doubt. But why? Because this woman has taken something that is meant to be fun, a helpful tool, a communication device, and let it define her. Does it matter that 5 million people that DON'T EVEN KNOW YOU know that you're a widow? No it doesn't. And if it does matter to her that much, she has more problems than facebook not having widow on their options.
How does this relation to you however? We, as humans, and more so, as Christians, do the same thing all the time. When the time is drawing closer and closer of Christ's return, time is running out to reach the lost, we fill our time with stupid, needless, time-devouring things that have no meaning or baring on the earth. We play video games all day long for the entire weekend, we get rolled up in dating this girl or that girl or this boy or that boy, we fill our times with TV, books, and all sorts of stuff that makes no difference one way or another in light of eternity.
Now are these things wrong? No, not necessarily. But like most other things, they have their place. They have their time limits and they have their prioritized level of importance that many of us remove from their spot and put higher up on the 'food chain' if you will, in exchange for moving God, prayer, and studying the Word down a few notches.
Now when I first saw this story on this woman, I thought, "what a complete moron." But sitting back and reviewing it, I see many of us are the same way and my first reaction, like most, was the wrong reaction. Was it true? Yeah, she's stupid for allowing something so dumb to take so much of her time, but we're stupid for allowing the same thing, whether it be facebook or something else.
I'm Krist Adams, and now you know the rest of the story.