Are you willing to give up social media and search new ways to explore God’s love and power?
As many of you know, I was in Myanmar for the past month, and the ministry and the people were really really amazing! For ministry we would work in the morning and then have a five hour break and then go back to ministry at night. During our free time we would work out, swim, talk to family and spend a whole lot of scrolling through social media aimlessly. While those things sound like fun it actually affected me in a way I never thought would. Scrolling through social media made me realize that I’m living in a whole different world, and I began to worry about things back as home that I had no control over. Talking to my family distracted me from getting closer to God because every time I started to worry or have anxiety I would automatically reach out to my family instead of pressing into the Lord and having him help me through things.
So with that being said, the next couple of weeks God is calling me to fast from social media and from talking to my family (except my birthday of course, I got the okay on that one.) So far it has lead to a lot of growth and a lot of fun. It has made me realize how much I miss being creative or having deep conversations with a fellow teammate or simply staring at a wall and thanking God for who he is. It has made me see God in a whole new way, to the point of real dependency. It has made me understand more of who I am and that when things get hard and I’m full of worry I can turn to God for help and He can get me through things that I’ve never experienced. Its been good not having to worry about anything except God and the people I get to do life with.
What if you miss something so big that happened right in front of you because you were looking down on your phone screen?
