followHIM - People Over Pixels • followHIM Favorites • Mar. 2-8 • Come Follow Me

Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome to Follow Him favorites. This is where John and I share a single story with each week's Come follow me lesson. John, we're in chapters 25 through 33 of Genesis. You have a story. Is it about Jacob and Esau? It is. We've often heard he sold his birthright for a mess of potage. I didn't know what that meant. I thought, is it like a pod of message? I guess so. It's a bowl of beans. The whole idea was that one of these things is not like the other. It reminds. mind of me of a music and the spoken word. I love the tabernacle choir, Hank, the little messages they give in there. And I remember this one. This was amazing to me. A few years ago, executives at a large theme park hired consultants to help them understand how to capture the

Starting point is 00:00:49 attention of small children. The consultant spent hours in a park observing children to see what most interested them. What they learned surprised them. The children seemed to be most captivated, not by the exciting rides, not by the costumed characters, not by the colorful displays, but instead by their parents' cell phones, especially when the parents were using them. And I made me laugh because I thought of those Fisher Price toys we make, we'll make it in full color. It'll look like a cell phone, but we'll make it in full color. Maybe that'll help. Nope. I won't the black one. Nothing. As one of the consultants reported, those kids clearly understood what held their parents' attention, and they wanted it too. Even small children got the message that cell phones

Starting point is 00:01:46 were enticing action centers of their world, more interesting, apparently, than an amusement park. worst of all, when parents were using their cell phones, they were not paying complete attention to their children. This story might prompt us to pause and consider what captures our attention. I thought of the mess of pottage there. The message it sends, if I'm talking to you, Hank, but I'm also looking up my phone, or if I put it on the table, and I've had that weakness, I'm trying to be better.

Starting point is 00:02:22 Oh, me too, worse than you, John. No, I think you even did a talk about it, wake up from your phone. It's a good message because it sends a message, a mess of pottage, right? If I'm more interested in my phone, I got to put that away when I'm with people that I care about. Put it away. I've often told youth and unyuth, too, that there's going to come a day where you would give anything for 10 more minutes with that person, and you've got your 10 minutes right in front of you. why are you on your phone?

Starting point is 00:02:55 There's going to come a day where, oh, you would just give anything to talk to that person again. It's a good lesson, John. It's a good lesson. Every time I pick up my phone and my son says to me, hey, dad, and if I don't put that phone away, I'm kind of trading my time with him for something kind of worthless. A mess of phonage. Yeah. A mess of appage.

Starting point is 00:03:16 A phone message or a mess of phone message. I love it. Come join us on our full podcast. It's called phone. Follow him. You can get it wherever you get your podcast. We're with brother Mike Harris this week. He walks through these chapters in a wonderful way. He's excited. He shows us some lessons that I'd never seen before. You'll love him. And then come back here next week. We'll do another follow him favorites.

followHIM - People Over Pixels • followHIM Favorites • Mar. 2-8 • Come Follow Me

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