Stepping Back
Currently seeking Christ, more than public preaching, posting, and social networking. Before I elected to wholly close down my connection to that platform, Facebook, near a year ago, many souls did earnestly admonished me to leave my postings public, relating how they served to edify the saints. Perhaps this held a measure of truth. Yet, I perceived a profound danger: that the act itself did serve to unduly elevate my own person, whilst also drawing my spirit into the shameful waste of precious hours, spent merely observing the idle activities of others. A decidedly sour taste began to develop in my mouth for the sheer, daily clamour of the place—the overwhelming barrage of repetitive notions, the ceaseless memes, and the quotations from every popular theological celebrity of the hour. One was utterly swamped by the fleeting thoughts of men upon the affairs of this world, upon the character of their neighbours, and, most regrettably, upon the very nature of the Divine. I found mys...