Michael Knowles posted a statistic that claimed 77% of middle-aged (34-54 years old) Americans want to return to a time before society was always “plugged-in.” They would like to go back to the time before cell phones were in our pockets and emails were constantly piling up in our inbox.

Gosh! It would be great to go back to when we weren’t fixated on our cell phones and obsessed with social media. Simpler times, before mankind discovered fire, agriculture, and sanitation. Back to when shelter was a muddy cave or fallen tree and Cholera was usually fatal. Back before texting, when loved ones had face-to-face conversations every couple of decades if they were fortunate enough to survive a grueling cross-country expedition…

“John, you jerk!! You’re missing the point!!!! Nobody is saying technology is bad but our obsession with it is unhealthy!!!!! Why are you such an insufferable JERK??!!”

Let me gently, humbly, lovingly suggest that an unhealthy relationship with technology is not the fault of technology. That’s a ‘you problem’ that won’t be solved by dragging mankind into the primitive past. If your kids are spending too much time online…parent them. Set some boundaries. Make some rules. And when they pitch a fit (which they almost certainly will), go back in history and retrieve this phrase, “I’m doing this for your own good.”

Change is inevitable. Some change won’t be to your liking. It isn’t helpful to survey the aftermath of a tornado and lament that the neighborhood was better yesterday.

When the automobile appeared, the middle aged people wished for the days of horses and buggies. Fortunately, they didn’t get their wish. As someone who almost qualifies as middle-aged, I’m going to stop pining for the past and start owning my behavior in the present.

(Philippians 3:13) Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.