See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil (Ephesians 5:15-16).
Satan is not wasting time—he is wasting yours. He does not need to drag you into blatant sin if he can bleed you dry with trivialities. He does not need you to renounce Christ with your lips if he can silence your witness with your habits. The devil’s deadliest weapon against modern Christians is not persecution or false doctrine, but the temptation of "just one more".
Just one more click. Just one more swipe. Just one more YouTube short. Just one more Facebook reel. Just one more TikTok video. Just one more text. Just one more shopping search. Just one more witty comment. Just one more post to win an argument with a stranger on the internet.
Satan does not need to take your life all at once. He only needs to take a minute--or even a few seconds--through just one more.
This is drip by drip destruction—a wasted minute here, a squandered hour there— is the slow death of a thousand cuts through which the Devil is embroiling the Church in entertainment, drowning her in doomscrolling, vexing her with video games, strangling her with sports, and numbing her with digital noise. And the saints sit spellbound, staring at their screens. Enchanted...mesmerized...hypnotized...slowly dying one wasted second at a time.
Do you not see? This is war. Satan is waging a campaign of a thousand cuts, slicing away your zeal, dulling your hunger for the Word, numbing your ears to the Spirit.
He doesn’t need you to bow to Baal if he can keep you glued to a screen. He doesn’t need you to curse Christ when he can lull you into silence. He doesn't need to keep you from praying when he can keep you from missing the next episode. He doesn’t need to burn your Bible when he can keep it collecting dust on the shelf while you busy yourself with binge watching.
Adam and Eve fell with just one bite. We can fall with just one swipe. "There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death" Proverbs 14:12.
We call it relaxation. We call it unwinding. We call it fun. Heaven calls it idolatry; the forces of darkness call it victory.
The Lord says, “Redeem the time, for the days are evil!” But what little breath we have is spent on vanity. Our prayers bounce off the ceiling because we have traded the secret place for the screen. Our witness is powerless because our hearts are entangled in the world. Our souls are dry from seeking Babylon’s empty cisterns instead of the Living Water.
Wake up, O sleeper! Minute by minute, and second by second, the enemy is stealing your life, and with your consent. You think you are safe because you have not fallen into scandalous sin. But you are already conquered when, in slavery to your screen, you surrender your time. And time is life.
"Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?" (Romans 6:16).
Judgment is now, and the King asks how you have spent your days. What will you say when He holds up the wasted hours? What will you answer when He shows you the souls you never reached because you were too busy amusing yourself to death?
Throw off the chains of distraction! Cast down the idol of entertainment! Tear down the glowing screen from its throne and allow Christ back into His rightful place. This is the hour for war, not amusement. This is the hour for watchmen, not sleepwalkers.
The Spirit of God cries out: “Come out from among them and be ye separate. Touch not the unclean thing. Redeem the time. Seek first My kingdom.” Refuse the thousand cuts of Satan, and take up the sword of the Spirit. Live not for the passing pleasures of sin, but for righteousness.
Lord, forgive us for wasting the time You purchased with Your blood. Deliver us from the idols of entertainment. Break the chains of distraction, and set us on fire for Your Kingdom. Let us not die by a thousand cuts, but rather die to self. Let us rise up as soldiers of Christ, to burn with urgency, unshaken, undistracted, until we see You face to face.
Amen.
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Ken Mindoro, MD