Mindless social media scrolling to pass the time is a powerful devil’s workshop.

It might be just a momentary screen pause, a longer than usual glance, or a full stop of the thumb, but platform algorithms quickly learn what snags your glance then feeds you more.

Foods, skin, pranks, vulgarity, or just cat videos, the ultimate algorithmic service is to identify, rank, and deliver what appears to entertain you most so you spend more screen time, stumble upon more ads, or worse, stumble into sin.

What begins as a harmless, mindless act has become a not so insidious mindful science, an unwitting study in human behavior to which you provide face to screen consent each time you pull out your phone.

Take every thought captive in obedience to Christ, 2 Corinthians 10:5, and above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. Proverbs 4:23