Warning!! If you don't like someone being open, honest, and real, this blog is not for you!!
Last month in Cambodia and for most of the last three months in Southeast Asia I discovered something which was surprising to me. The people in Asia value having Wi-fi almost as much as we do back in the States.
Having Wi-fi in Asia made connecting back with supporters really easy for me through Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
When my team was asked to do Ask the Lord month/Unsung Heroes month guess who my team thought of to be the social media person: Me without hesistation.
It's even safe to say my beloved M-squad would say I am at least in the top 5 out of 50 when it comes to updating people through social media on The World Race.
My supporters have a front seat to what is going on in my life! Awesome!
Supporters can see what God is doing in me and through me on The World Race! Great!
With the exception of the first two weeks in Thailand I had access to wifi at my ministry site or many coffee shops around so I can go with some teammates and upload pictures! Great!
This is all the great things about social media on the Race and in my life. The nice part is over! Here comes the realness.
What was God thinking when I was on the internet at times for over two hours on some days?
Sometimes I was downloading sermons but most of the time I was on the Instagram or on the good ol' Facebook.
Some of y'all think on The World Race oh it's easy for you Blake to have a quiet time everyday, play Chris Tomlin on your IPod, and be the most awesome teammate and friend to all of your squadmates. Wrong!! I am human just like you.
There are times were my quiet time with the Lord is distracted. To be honest most of this is my own doing.
I like to be around people and sometimes when I hear great discussions about something they read in the Bible, a situation with their family or a random joke about something light hearted I like to be involved with my friends.
What I should really do is go into a quiet place and have a quiet time with God. Maybe not coming out of my room in the morning until a real quiet time alone happens not one where I can have one ear listening to other things. On the race the definition of quiet time is headphones in your ear.
God is a jealous God for each one of us. He wants to be #1 in our lives period. Does not want to fight for second place in our lives. Anything in our lives even if the thing is good, if the thing becomes first in your life instead of God, I hate to break this to you but that's idolatry!!
In Matthew 6:24 says "No one can serve two masters, either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money."
Take this lesson and apply this to an area of your life and check yourself before you wreck yourself! For me, the verse says Blake you cannot serve two masters God and social media. Blake must be love God and put social media below God or Social Media above God and you may as well not know who is God is because He wants to be #1 only!!
In Cambodia, God put on my heart to take a social media break in Rwanda. This was not easy at all for me. I knew I have many supporters who look at the Big Social Media Three (Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter) to follow God's journey through me on the WR.
Really God Really!! My first reaction
Yes Blake Really!
After getting on the plane from Qatar to go to Uganda and then Rwanda started this no social media fast.
Many of my friends on the squad were already updating on Facebook about Rwanda and putting pictures up. I was not the person ahead but behind on updating supporters.
Every month I pray to be challenged by God, mold me, break me, and grow me into the Man of God he wants me to be for His glory.
At the beginning of the race the big things were brought to the surface and their gone but now it's about refining aka God is digging deep and finding plenty of things to surface up which I never thought of before.
I said to God out loud and even to a couple of teammates of mine this social media fast is hell. In fact 11 days of Hell.
God was saying to me Who do you put first in your life? Look at your life and if something has the power to consume most of your time it's probably first and unless it's God it's Idolatry!
