Irony of Ironies, I am announcing my withdrawal from Social
Media through Social Media. But follow me on this and understand why I am doing
this. First, I have become consumed with checking status and responding to comments.
This took a bunch of time from my day. Over 10 years ago I dumped cable and am
feeling great, so we will see what this means for Social Media.
Second, I had to be right! I was thinking of a couple
threads on my friends Wayne’s page. It was always with one of his friends who
is an atheist, a government educated science aficionado and like me needs to be
right. Well we would get into very long and contentious debates over climate
change, the existence of God and Jesus being the way to salvation. While they
were great they were a total waste of time as no minds were changed.
I do not wish to insult Wayne’s friend but I think of
Matthew 7:6 when dug in deep with a debate like this:
“Do not give what is holy to the
dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet,
and turn and tear you in pieces.
Sometimes being right with an atheist is impossible, they
will never understand scripture without the Holy Spirit to guide them. So no
matter how much I work on them the end result will be frustration on my part
and pride on theirs. An example was how can one follow a God that kills
everyone in Numbers 31:17-18:
17 Now therefore, kill every male
among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man intimately. 18
But keep alive for yourselves all the young girls who have not known a man
intimately.
The argument is God is Love and therefore how can one follow
a God that does this. Well God is also, Jealous, Angry and Just along with
Loving. So while it’s horrific to think God would kill everyone like this as
Christians we tend to say well that’s Old Testament and things change with
Jesus. Really? Ever read Revelations?
Think of it this way, you are first male and married. You
have a gun and your house is broken into and the person is ready to rape and
kill your wife. Do you love on them and hope they change their heart or shoot
them dead? While God wants everyone to come to Jesus and have eternal
salvation, they cannot without Jesus. If they reject him then what would you
expect?
Finally, I am bringing my FOCUS back to Jesus and will
continue to read my Bible daily. Will continue to pray daily. The difference is
I am no longer boasting about it on Social Media. So farewell and IF you still
need to contact me I will respond via email, phone, text AND even Social Media
messaging but NOT on a public forum. At least UNTIL I have that COME TO JESUS
moment when I am released from this FAST;-)