So
its a sunday night and I'm sitting on the couch with my pumpkin spice
latte and my cell phone looking on facebook wasting time. Its quiet
in my house, my three little ones are asleep and all I can hear is
the crackle from the fireplace. (electric but still counts!) All of a
sudden God was like “hello! You have complete peace and quiet, can
you spend some time with me!” Obviously this wasn't in an audiable
voice but it sure felt like it. I'm constantly using the excuse that
I don't have enough time to spend with God on a daily basis and here
I am on a Sunday with total silence and I am wasting time on
facebook! What am I thinking? Oh yeah about me! Certaintly not about
Him, not my father, my creator, the one who loves me with a love
stronger than anything I can imagine. For some reason I feel the need
to stare at my phone for what seems like a few minutes but in reality
is like an hour, all to see what this person did today and what that
person ate for dinner! Lets not forget I'm just as bad! I post
everytime I have a thought I feel the need to share or some saying
and sometimes I will admit I post things to see how many “likes”
I get. I should be using this life, this time I have here to be
bringing glory to God. Praising the creator of the universe. What do
I do? Use facebook as my own personal praise page, look at me, how
wonderful I am, how special all the things I do are. Im not foolish,
I understand that people don't give a stink about what I had for
dinner or what I did today. But we look anyway, we post anyway. Don't
get me wrong, facebook when used properly is an awesome tool to keep
in touch with family and friends, post pictures and be updated on
peoples lives. But I think it is pretty clear that we spend way to
much time on the site, we are so busy cooking, cleaning, working,
raising kids, and facebooking to spend time with the Lord. I am sure
that god has grace and understands that we are busy mothers and wives
and we talk to God all day while we are working but when we sit down
and spend hours on the internet and playing these games over spending
quality time with Him, I am sure that saddens Him. We were important
enough for Him to sacrifice his son but He is not important enough to
us to put away the phone or computer and grab our bible out and spend
some quality time with our maker.
We
can be so selfish sometimes and want things to be all about us.
Facebook is just another thing that takes attention away from God and
puts the spotlight back on us. Oh how some of us crave it. Think
about how many “facebook friends” you have, what if we used our
facebook page to praise God and tell of all the great and mighty
things He has done instead of how wonderful or sometimes pitiful we
are. Think about how many people we could reach! Thats such a cool
thought, we have this amazing tool that if used in the right way
could reach possibly millions!
This
post started out about how I need to spend more free time with the
Lord and ended with how I can better serve the Lord and share the
gospel with facebook. Oh how the Lord works :)
Heavenly
father thank you so much for the busy-ness of our days Lord, thank
you for the free time, help us to want to spend that quality time
with you, help us crave that first. Lord, Help us prioritize things
in our lives so that you are the first thing we think of when we are
bored or find ourselves with “free time”. Thank you for facebook,
the awesome tool that it can be. We pray that you convict us of our
selfishness with it if it exists within us. Help us to use the site
to glorify you Lord, just like everything else in our lives. Thank
you that you still seek us even when we turn away and are “too
busy” for you. Lord help us to love you and crave you first, never
being able to get enough of you! In Jesus' name. Amen!
