Thank you for this reminder. I admit I struggle with using food and binge-watching Netflix or other video streaming services to comfort myself. To consider those things are actually idolatry makes me… - Jill Kelley - Medium

You don’t bring pleasure or glory to Him when you fret about the bad things that are happening in and around you … or when you try to anesthetize yourself with things that can’t ever really solve any of your problems or fill the emptiness and need inside you.

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Thank you for this reminder. I admit I struggle with using food and binge-watching Netflix or other video streaming services to comfort myself. To consider those things are actually idolatry makes me feel conviction and compels me to repent.

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