Perspective My Friend, Perspective
Luke says:
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks. Luke 6:64 (NIV)Pastor Steven once said:
Out of the overflow of your heart, your hands tweet.
Then suddenly it brings relevance to what the Bible perhaps meant to say - whatever that you say, tweet, write, talk about, discuss comes from what is close to your heart. And the important lesson behind all this?
With the advance of social media, everyone is entitled to their say/ opinion/ critic/ comment/ suggestions etc… in whatever circumstance that is placed in front of them i.e. News, drama in life, unhappiness, happiness blah blah blah… they are more vocal about it via the means of social media platforms like this one.
The extremist would add a disclaimer that goes a little like “If you ain’t happy with what you’re reading or seeing, you can move your cursor to the ‘x’ and close the window (or the common term now ‘block’)”
The nonchalant does it in their best way - ignore the negative comments and critics.
So if you’re still reading this (just checking), here’s my point in saying all these - You’re a christian? You believe in God? Really? Is He the one you said is almighty, the Saviour who died and rose again, that with Him all things are possible, your Provider and Comforter, who knows the beginning and the end, who has a plan and purpose for your life? Really?
Then why isn’t it reflecting in your public life - in this case, your social media platform?
It’s one thing to tweet a Bible verse, encourage someone, proclaim that He is good and the promises of God because that’s what the Christians would right? But it’s another to actually see it lived out.
There is a huge contradiction when there is a tweet about God and His promises, then five minutes later, a negative remark about how terrible life/ circumstances/ work/ school is treating you.
Not judging or being critical, but we need to be watchful and consistent in what we claim in our social media platform just because it’s public.
For the ones who still can’t get it, here’s an example:
If you truly believe in God, and the promises He has for you, why are you ranting away about how miserable you are during the week, when you know - His mercies are new every morning? And that He is bigger than all of our problems.
Perspective my friend, perspective. When your focus is on God, when you allow everyday to be about an experience with Him, no matter what you go through, you know He’ll be there - consequently, it will reflect evidently in the use of your social media platform. That’s why Luke said what he said. Out of the overflow of your heart, your mouth speaks.
So if you know that God has a plan and purpose for your life, and wants the best for you, and suddenly something comes up and disrupts your life, and you complain about it, you whine about it and you can’t wait to get over it, are you saying that God is lying all these while about knowing you and He is contradicting Himself?
Get it now? Cause the people who follow you sees that.
