We've been asked quite often why we are so sluggish in joining facebook (or any social network).
To this point our answers as to why we haven't joined yet have been unclear at best. There are more or less particular reasons for our inactivity on the matter but none of them as simple and as clear as the fact that we are simply not interested in joining. If you are still curious as to why we choose not to, the most honest answer you will ever get is that we are truly and definitely and entirely uninterested.
I even googled "facebook" images to maybe find something to go along with this post but all I got was a confirmation to my thoughts. I just couldn't care any less about it. It makes me want to read Ecclesiastes again.
I hope this note finds you well. Please be challenged by it. From an exhorting brother to you!
Go read your Bible instead of updating your facebook account, for in it are the words of life. Maybe you won't get as many people asking to be your friend, but you will be shocked beyond your wildest dreams at how content you can be without a single one of them (friends) when you find yourself staring at the fiercely compassionate face of the living God.
Quit inviting internet 'friends' to your web page rather than inviting lost souls to the foot of the cross.
I hope you are sound enough to read in my voice that I am not condemning you for using facebook. I am simply stating two things. One, that I am not interested in joining facebook. And two, I am encouraging you to search your heart today. If facebook has become your idol, then yes, you are rebuked for it, and I plead that you relinquish its hold on you - for your sake and for His glory. On the other hand, if your idol is something completely different, then my rebuke is exactly the same. Mankind can get quite creative with his idolatry, but in reality they ALL fall in to the "and they worshipped 'other gods' " category.
Friends, if you claim to know Christ but your lives don't reflect it, please shiver in despair. God is not mocked.
Don't play! I love you so very much. Don't play!
Cry out.
2 comments:
You're right that facebook can become an idol, a waste of time, etc. But it can also simply be a way of keeping in touch. For those of us (which are most) who don't live near old friends or family it is the best way I know of keeping in touch.
Your mother's updates on facebook are almost always about God's peace and presence in her life so apparently the two are not mutually exclusive.
Thank you, however, for your exhortation.
Heather, are you coming to the ECA reunion? I heard you may not be able to make it. I sure hope you can come. It will be great to see you!!! :) Allyson
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