Last night I went to 6pm Praise and Worship at my church, I felt so much better. I also learned a lot in Bible Study. I felt so relaxed and good afterwards and when I went home my study hour went smoothly and I slept like a baby. I am blessed to have been lead by God to my new church home. Thank God. Something however occured to me last night as I was posting a new status on facebook before bed.
I have got to do some serious facebook filtering and fast! I have never known people could be so ignorant on the internet. Now I fully support freedom of expression, speech and opinion, but there are people out here who are just crying for attention. At first, I thought facebook was just the devil so I took a little hiatus, you know, a fast from it. When I came back, I realized that it is not the actual website, though it does help. It is some of the people I am friends with and their horrible cries for attention.
My pet peeve with statuses is that people post their prayers on the website. Even before I was in Christ, I never thought that was a good idea. There are people out here who do not want to see you do good. There are people out here that want you to fail miserably, because misery loves company. There is power in the tongue ( and maybe thoughts). But the tongue is very powerful because once you release words, you can not take them back and swallow them again. So when you put your prayers (Your desires, your needs, your wants) on a public site for everybody to see, of every religion, of every thought.....The enemy can get in the way of that prayer by saying something against it. You can't put everything on facebook! You just cant!! I learned that the hard way when I would vent up there. People start thinking you talking about them, people start getting offended. Heck, you can barely post your own opinion.
So this is where filtering comes in and "friends" need to be deleted. For one, who wants or needs five thousand friends? I don't. Who wants to log in on a good day and see a depressing status about how they wish they were dead because they didn't receive a call back from their boyfriend? I dont. Who needs to read statuses posted by people who don't even know what the word humilty is? I'm talking about every status is about how much money they have, how they spend their money, how it must suck to be broke, and how they are sooo glad they are not broke. I don't want nor do I need to read that. This is why I need to do a good filtering of my social network.
Today, after I went to my tutoring session with my Biology professor and after I listened to her tell me how I needed make flashcards for every word in two chapter that was written in bold print, I asked myself why I was even doing this. I love to read and write, and my ultimate dream is to make a living off of my brilliant publications. But then, I remembered that Stephen King got hundreds of rejections and I took my happy behind to the computer lab and printed out my study guides *Smile*.
College can be so hard, and oh so stressful, especially when you are going through financial strains. I just lean on Christ because I know all of this will pay off in the end.
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