Technology is Truly a Blessing, and a Curse

This week I studied a few talks one that caught my attention was  "Sharing the Gospel Using the Internet" by By Elder M. Russell Ballard it was written over a decade ago. I was drawn to it because of the age of the talk as well as the fact that it was given at a devotional at Brigham Young University of Hawaii, which I attended previously to my attendance at Brigham Young University of Idaho. Honestly the thing that caught my attention was when Elder Ballard was speaking about the fact that technology can be used for good and bad, as much as the same technology can be used by the devil to share pornagraph images we can use it to share uplifting messages with those around us. 

Something interesting that I received was the simplicity of texting someone. I had so many thoughts to text people in my life as I was reading the chapters. The technology we have in our day is amazing. I also thought about an experience I had in the temple this week as we were doing sealings and the sealer stopped the session and proclaimed to the company that it is thanks to modern day technology that we are able to do so much temple work. The church and its members are able to clearly see what work needs to be done and other people whose lives we can bless by performing their temple work for them on the earth. It was a humbling experience as we learned that some of the work had been done for these ancestors over a hundred years ago. And it was because of lack of organization and record keeping that this name had got lost and the work wasn't finished.

It is such a blessing to have this but on the other side, there are many problems with abuse of technology in our day, as time goes on and technology is becoming more advanced the evils of it are as well, it is easier to become addicted to pornography more now than ever. This just proves that Satan takes all of God's creations and makes them his own by dementing them. We need to do all that we can to protect ourselves from the evils of the devil, and find ways to thank God for his creations and use them all while keeping away from those evils which can often be hard.