As you can tell, the World Race web site had a little make over this week – I’m a fan. However, it got me thinking a lot about technology, blogs, social networks, email, cell phones, and about a million other things. My brain moves quickly. So I just started writing my thoughts down, and turned them into this blog. Don't hate me after you read it.
I long for a simpler life, where people couldn’t electronically “check in” places with a phone. A) because I think it’s really weird, and B) because know one cares that you go to starbucks 12 times a day. We do, however, worry about your health. A world where people didn’t think you were dead because you didn’t answer your phone.
I function better in a slow paced world. It gives me more time to think, and process and realize that processing is a necessary part of life. I desire that world, and I find myself incredibly refreshed when I can be a part of it, even if for an instant.
But In my attempt to find that slow paced world again, I’m fighting a world around me, and sometimes even myself because I love technology just as much as anyone. Maybe even more. I love friendly emails, and comments and reading funny facebook status’ just as much as you.
However, All I really want is no shoes, no computer, no problem.
For example, I personally use the delete button on my facebook more than I use any other button. I don’t like this, or that – delete. No more. Gone. Is that real life at all? (no) Life has no delete button. It could have an “oh, shoot, I’m an idiot” button, but how many people would willingly press that?
A social network type-of-world teaches us that we are only as cool as the number of people that like our status, or we are as awesome as the things we like, but that’s stupid. When we forget the difference between a technological (have what you want and have it now) world, and real life, it becomes toxic in our relationships with God and others.
Poison
Slowly draining the life from us
And God want’s to help us, but he is stuck in a screen that we trapped him in.
Let me explain, God is deeply relational. He really KNOWS us, and he wants us to know him. To intimately pursue him. Not to check him like we do our email, but to find ourselves so wrapped up in him that we are becoming one. Call me crazy, but maybe that involves legitimately longing for time with our creator, not searching for a bible verse to put as your facebook status so you can make your self look really spiritual.
God doesn’t buy it. Neither do I.
To know God, Not just know about him.
There is a HUGE difference.
Ultimately, we long to be wanted and loved and cared for and we look for anything to give us that. But you are better than that – I am better than that.
God offers a different kind of relationship. A more pure, honest, and fulfilling relationship.
One that pulls me away from a head knowledge of God, and makes me want to sit at his feet.
One that makes me wish I could hug him, hold his hand, look into his eyes, hear his voice, and feel what he feels.
One that moves me away from a world that is focused on instant gratification, superficial relationships and myself, and compels me to focus on loving God and others.
The things that really matter.
