What if our Bible was as important as our Cell Phones

A COMPARISON-CONTRAST
GIEANNE MALIMBAN
III LAVOISIER

Two words caught my eyes as I was scanning through the internet. Cell phone and Bible, two different things with its different uses and different importance. Great impact is what these two things give us. Are you wondering of how this things work in our lives, and how we work with it?

Look at one’s pocket and there you could see a phone, it is an electronic device used widely in terms of communication, that gives different features such as SMS, email, packet switching for access to the Internet, gaming, bluetooth, infrared, camera with video recorder and MMS for sending and receiving photos and video. Go through a house and there you could probably see a bible, the sacred book of Christians a collection of ancient writings including the books of both the Old Testament and the New Testament. This contains different stories about God and serves as a manual for us in living in this world. Two important things used differently. Which is could be more important than the other? What do I really need?

These two different things both useful to man’s life. But as what we could see now cell phones are given much importance than bible. Cell phone is something to be concerned of that we don’t even want scratches to mess it up, unlike bible which is just left anywhere and not receiving the kind of care it needs. Text messages are often read while bible messages are read infrequently. Cell phone messages are shared and forwarded to friends while giving of bible verses gives embarrassment for people. Cell phone message is sometimes late while bible message is always on time. Cell phones need to be loaded for you to have message, while bible is always loaded with God’s words. Cell phones and Bible has a lot of differences according to how people use it and shows importance to it.

I wonder what would happen if we treated our Bible like we treat our cell-phones. These things have their own importance and their unique quality that we should not just focus on one thing. Bible is also an important thing. Cell phones show people’s lifestyle while a bible changes peoples lifestyle. Cellphones are important to us but Bible are much important if we would be using it. Unlike our cell phone, we don't have to worry about our Bible being disconnected because Jesus already paid the bill and no dropped calls! Let us try to show importance to our bibles just as we are giving importance to our cell phones and let us see its manifestation in our lives.