But what if God is wanting to meet you in your boredom to reveal His purpose to you? I’m guilty of pulling up Facebook at the slightest bit of boredom. It’s that simple.īecause we’re not pursuing God like we should, we get bored and are attempting to fill the void with constant entertainment. How can we know what to pray unless we meditate on His Word? How can we read the Word, much less meditate on it day and night if we’re constantly scrolling through social media? We’re simply choosing the pleasures of this world rather than spending time with the God of the universe. Psalm 1 tells us the blessed man meditates day and night on the Word of God. If you compare your daily amount of time spent on Facebook to prayer, how does it measure up? If the former is greater, I wouldn’t simply shrug that off. John Piper quips, “One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.” Social media is a very handy tool that Satan uses to rip your attention and affection from God. “The end of all things is at hand therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers.” ( 1 Peter 4:7) It’s absolutely worth it, and absolutely deadly if you don’t. Get rid of anything that might hinder that. Matthew 5:8 tells us that the pure in heart will see God! Keep your heart pure and fixed on the Father. But don’t merely run from them, run to the open arms of Christ Jesus. Remember the areas that caused you to stumble before and run the other way. Unfollow, unfriend, or delete your account if you have to. But just like I mentioned in the previous section, it won’t stop there.
Who’s going to know? It can be your little pet sin. Satan will whisper that it’s okay to look because there’s no harm. The temptation to scroll back up for one more look is even more dangerous because its privately done. Couple that with the ease of giving into lustful thoughts and it’s a disaster for holy living. We live in a pornographic culture and it is almost impossible to avoid while scrolling. In my experience, that’s where pure thoughts go to die. Your relationship with God is infinitely more valuable than Facebook.Īimlessly scrolling through the mind-numbing newsfeed is one of the most dangerous things a Christian can do. I was down to watch.If you are fighting the sin of lust, I suggest taking a break from social media, perhaps even indefinitely. We got a carrier group operating offshore. Is it that bad? My brother told me he lost a really good - squad leader? Anyway, is it that big a deal? Had the gang war he'd hoped to start already begun? Clark took that in and did some supposing. There were some curious things there, but not the right size and shape to be machine guns. One shined his flashlight into the back of the Subaru. The police were looking at the passing cars, but not searching them. That's why we train, the major concluded. Anyway, the reconnaissance units in particular lost some good ones, and it cost us some. We lost some good people out of some important slots - same with you, right? People rotate in, rotate out, and it takes awhile to get the new ones up to speed. This was mainly a reconnaissance exercise, trying to get inside to gather information, conduct a few raids, that sort of thing. How fast can you get a line on what happened here?
You don't 'suppose' very often in this business.
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There wasn't much traffic, but here as with every other place in the world where people drove cars, the drivers slowed down to give it all a look. Whoever owned them, somebody didn't like them, Clark saw. A pair of black BMWs were lying on their sides just off the road. A collection of ambulances and police cars was parked on the shoulder while uniformed men appeared and disappeared in the pinkish light from hazard flares. Porsches, Rolls, BenzesĮighty minutes later their Subaru had to slow down. It's like the horse collection at Churchill Downs. Well, the Kevlar's supposed to stop stuff from tearing your skull apart, and the mop we wrap around it breaks up your outline - makes you harder to see in the bush, sir.
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The Cabbage Patch Hat? The major smiled, his eyes closed. The big, fast one? Somebody with big-time money, then. I fly fighter planes when I'm not driving a desk. Serving two-to-three in the Pentagon at the moment.
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