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This testimony was inspired by a post in the video games section and I thought I would share my testimony with you about a certain time in my life.
About 2 years ago, I dreadfully discovered video games and decided that I wanted to fall in love with them. So I unfortunatly did, and ended up joining an online network for gamers. I was searching for some sort of comfort in my life since high school wasn't going all so well (which it didn't help in the end because my grades dropped because all I could concentrate on was getting that last game in instead of doing my homework), and I was looking for "security".
I became the head of a gaming network called FileFront (the sites section) and started playing games nearly 5-6 hours a day, I would even play when I got up in the morning before school. So the days went by, and I racked up the endless gaming hours, going to school red-eyed, and completely oblivious to anything that my teachers were trying to teach me.
This became very repetitive, and eventually, my mom and dad started worrying, but I didn't care, because hey, if I got that last few kills in on Battlefield 1942 or Half-Life, who else in the world mattered? Essentially, for a while, I forgot about God completely, and I began not caring about anyone but myself. If my mom told me to get off the computer, I would yell at her and slam the door to the computer room shut, and continue playing.
Months went by, and we are now up to February 2005. I started gradually playing video games less and less, because I was growing up, and I was really remembering God again, asking for His forgiveness and asking Him to be back in my life, to guide me again. It was a great feeling, and video games seemed less like a security, and more like a waste of time.
Going into May, I played video games barely at all, and stopped for a while all together. It was the best feeling ever. Center of June, however, I got a sudden urge to play them again. Obviously, at this time, I am courting Elizabeth (and still am), and to start playing video games again would basically ruin any chance of letting God be part of a relationship, let alone myself.
So I decided to do a fast, but this fast would be different from others. It would be an eternal fast, one that would last for a VERY long time. I have vowed not to play ANY MORE video games, at all. Since then, I have BURNT all of my games (all 23 of them). Yep, that's right, the games that I paid hard earned money for, I didn't even sell them for a bit of cash back. Why? Well, after what I went through, wasting over a 1000 hours of my life to a stupid graphical experience in a box, I decided that I would at least give back to someone else's life, and that would be one less person being in a position that I was in. I burned all of the game, deleted ALL of them off my hard drive, and I broke my X-Box. All in all, it felt great
It's been two months since then, and guess what? I am in better shape, I am healthier, my eyes are pure white (with blue in the middle), and I get up early every morning, and come to this forum instead of booting up a game. That's my testimony, I felt like sharing it because God really worked with me to destroy the temptations of sin and evil that lie within video games. May this be a message to others: Video games are a waste of your time and God's time, so make the most of the time that God has given you, and don't waste it on a petty game! Thankyou!
About 2 years ago, I dreadfully discovered video games and decided that I wanted to fall in love with them. So I unfortunatly did, and ended up joining an online network for gamers. I was searching for some sort of comfort in my life since high school wasn't going all so well (which it didn't help in the end because my grades dropped because all I could concentrate on was getting that last game in instead of doing my homework), and I was looking for "security".
I became the head of a gaming network called FileFront (the sites section) and started playing games nearly 5-6 hours a day, I would even play when I got up in the morning before school. So the days went by, and I racked up the endless gaming hours, going to school red-eyed, and completely oblivious to anything that my teachers were trying to teach me.
This became very repetitive, and eventually, my mom and dad started worrying, but I didn't care, because hey, if I got that last few kills in on Battlefield 1942 or Half-Life, who else in the world mattered? Essentially, for a while, I forgot about God completely, and I began not caring about anyone but myself. If my mom told me to get off the computer, I would yell at her and slam the door to the computer room shut, and continue playing.
Months went by, and we are now up to February 2005. I started gradually playing video games less and less, because I was growing up, and I was really remembering God again, asking for His forgiveness and asking Him to be back in my life, to guide me again. It was a great feeling, and video games seemed less like a security, and more like a waste of time.
Going into May, I played video games barely at all, and stopped for a while all together. It was the best feeling ever. Center of June, however, I got a sudden urge to play them again. Obviously, at this time, I am courting Elizabeth (and still am), and to start playing video games again would basically ruin any chance of letting God be part of a relationship, let alone myself.
So I decided to do a fast, but this fast would be different from others. It would be an eternal fast, one that would last for a VERY long time. I have vowed not to play ANY MORE video games, at all. Since then, I have BURNT all of my games (all 23 of them). Yep, that's right, the games that I paid hard earned money for, I didn't even sell them for a bit of cash back. Why? Well, after what I went through, wasting over a 1000 hours of my life to a stupid graphical experience in a box, I decided that I would at least give back to someone else's life, and that would be one less person being in a position that I was in. I burned all of the game, deleted ALL of them off my hard drive, and I broke my X-Box. All in all, it felt great
It's been two months since then, and guess what? I am in better shape, I am healthier, my eyes are pure white (with blue in the middle
), and I get up early every morning, and come to this forum instead of booting up a game. That's my testimony, I felt like sharing it because God really worked with me to destroy the temptations of sin and evil that lie within video games. May this be a message to others: Video games are a waste of your time and God's time, so make the most of the time that God has given you, and don't waste it on a petty game! Thankyou!
What an inspiring testimony! I am sure it will help many. God Bless you for sharing.
