Social Media: the truth behind the “goodbye”

I never thought I would be one to sit here and actually say I am getting rid of my social media. I always used the excuse, “I am not addicted” “It doesn’t control me” “I don’t have to go on it everyday” “I only go on it sometimes to waste time” “I want people to see the baby grow up” and for the most part, they’re pretty good excuses. The only problem, is they are excuses. They are keeping me from the real thing: His presence. Ever feel like you are hitting a wall in your walk with GOD? I’ve been feelin’ it for some time now…& thinking of every possibility to try and break through, try and get more of God and its always coming back down to this: Social Media, which I again would give God the excuse “It’s not a big deal.” IT IS A BIG DEAL. While praying for confirmation on what ~~exact~~ steps God wants me to take, you know, so I don’t seem crazy and super drastic (lol) I am reminded that, whatever God tells us to do & we choose not to do is a sin (James 4:17). With all this talk of the end times coming, and God coming back it pretty much has me really thinking about my walk, questioning why I do everything I do. Do i do it because it’s the culture? or because it’s out of habit? or Am i addicted? God is really coming back (this year, next year, 100yrs, who knows the day or time) but He will come back- And I will have to face Him. THE KING OF KINGS. What will my lame excuses look like then?? “Sorry God I couldn’t memorize the bible because I was looking at pictures on a phone” “Sorry God I didn’t have time to pray because i like sleeping in, then be lazy all day on my phone” REALLY?! It is actually really sad how social media, and cell phones in general have literally changed our generation. I’ve almost cried multiples times because I have been on my phone, looked up for a second & have seen Justice just staring at me. Am I really “that parent who ignores her child for a phone?” I do not want my child to grow up thinking that being on a phone is the only way of life. I want Justice to know how to have a normal conversation, to feel & express emotion, to be involved in the moment, to realize that PEOPLE matter -NOT CELL PHONES, to be free of bondage, to go outside and have adventures. If I don’t change how I act now, Justice will turn out like the rest of her generation, or even worse- like me (in that sense). She will only copy what she sees taught to her, what she can observe on the daily. I can’t imagine how I would have felt growing up knowing that my mom was constantly on her phone, involved in everyone else life & not my own- that she was “too busy” to talk with me, watch me play, have a conversation with me, go outside etc. Social Media can be good- I am not 100% against it, but there is a very fine line (in my life) that is keeping it acceptable. It can be a huge ministering tool, sharing videos, posting scripture, daily encouragements, witnessing etc. I want a breakthrough in my walk, and at this point I will do whatever it takes to get it. Pretty crazy, but isn’t this what life is about!? Sacrificing everything for the King. I want my daily life to be focused on God. I want to wake up & my first thought is prayer…not check instagram. I want to read HIS word throughout the day, not look at pictures when I get free time, I want to NOTICE PEOPLE WHO ARE LOST, and talk with them….not be consumed in a phone- which is slowly but surely making me a terrible Christian. I was reading today in 1 John & it said “Those who say they live in God should live their lives as Jesus did” (2:6) so convicting. What does that look like?! forget 21st century mentality and think about how God would live. What would be important, what would He do or say, how would HE spend His days?? I want that. I want to get to Heaven and God be proud of me, proud that I tried- not proud that i have a lot of followers, a nice car, and the “American dream” of a life. 4 years ago when I first got saved and encountered God, NOTHING MATTERED BESIDES HIM, literally nothing. I would wake up, read& pray, go have bible studies, go pray for people on the streets, have prayer meetings, talk about God all day long- and if God never changed, then obviously I am the one that did. I am sick of routines, sick of the culture, and sick of being complacent, sick of the excuses. God has made it pretty clear to me, through a serious of dreams how “demonic” in a sense social media is, and how much of a control it has on minds, how “captivating” it is and how much it truly controls our world, and it will play a huge part in persecution too. I am not a social media band wagon basher, I just feel God leading me to let go of that area of my life, forever or for a while (that I do not know, or care). I do love showing everyone Justice & her little or big milestones, her cute face, funny moments- but you can text me, and I can personally update you. I also think I will be on here a lot more now, so that will give some updates too.

Out of everything said & rambled about, I challenge you to look at your life and really put into perspective everything that truly matters & what you can give up to get more of God. Everyone has different areas that are struggles, easy to let go or plain excuses. Let God lead you, & really pray/ask for your eyes to be opened, and confirmation.

“Your eye is a lamp that provides light for your body. When your eye is good, your whole body is filled with light. But when your eye is bad, your whole body is filled with darkness. And if the light you think you have is actually darkness, how deep that darkness is.” (Matthew 6:22-23)

“Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the father in you. For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world.” (1 John 2:15-16)