knocking down an idol and returning to the living God

"What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”? But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you." (James 4:1-10 ESV)

Ever since I can remember the computer has always been a part of my life. My dad is a computer programmer so I grew up around computers and in my house the computer is pretty much always in use. What came with that upbringing was a love for computer games. I was never allowed to have a "video game" system in my house, only computer games. So being a child of this generation I played tons of games. I used to play every game I could get a hold of. I remember when my family's computer was a mac II. I remember playing games on that in my early years of elemetary school. Then we got a pc and that opened up a whole world of new types of games to me. Ever since then, 2 new computers later, I have been playing computer games mostly every day of my life. I was never one of those kids who hung out with other "video game nerds" at lunch and just talked about games, actually I have very few friends who actually play any computer games But I have come to the realization that computer games have become a major form of idol worship in my life. I have noticed the suttle way in which my passions are at war within me. I find myself somewhere, not at home, and having a strong desire and anticipation for when I get to go home and play some new game. It is pushing away my desire for Christ and my desire to love him and others. Therefore, I have decided to quit playing computer games indefinitly. I have recognized them as an idol that I need to destroy. I have noticed that when I begin to have passion for computer games it leads me to begin to seek other worldly pleasures that are not of God, ones that are outright sinful. I think that Satan is using my weakness with computer games to lead me quickly down a road that I should never be on. My ultimate desire is that I can so delight myself in God alone that I will look upon everything this world has to offer and see nothing but trash in comparison to my relationship with Christ, not that everything this world offers is neccesarily trash. There are many things that are earthly pleasures that are from God. I want to embrace those things but I realize that this one thing is something I personally struggle with and need to act accordingly.

So I am declaring my vow to cease playing computer games before all you reading this