Facebook postings

I think it is being confirmed every time I scroll down and read through facebook status updates; it is NOT for those who think about the ultimate issues of life! Perhaps the motto of facebook is 'get a life!' to people like me. I sometimes think that facebook is socially acceptable voyeurism. You get a peek into another person's life. It can be sometimes poignant, sometimes funny, sometimes ludicrous, sometimes plain stupid, sometimes brain-numbing, and very hardly ever real, truthful and inspiring.

Perhaps I should just get off facebook?

Perhaps I am just a social networking misfit?

What really gets to me are the myriads of so-called 'Christ followers' who take to facebook and show their very true self. A self that is miles away from being an authentic Christ-follower. Horror of horrors! I am being judgmental! Yeah, and you? Are you not being judgmental when you judge another as judgmental? So there!

Yeah, it can be quite grievous when you read from the postings of so-called 'Christ-followers' how little of Christ is usually seen in them (the postings I mean). I guess evangelicals have been taught so well over the decades to hide their Christ-faith that today, you do everything in your power to ensure that the world around you don't find out that you are indeed a Christ-follower.

Perhaps we are already in that place and stage of the world's Christianity where the LORD asked, 'And when the Son of Man returns, will He find faith on earth?'

You read of so-called pastors and ministry workers who have so much time and money to lavish on their weddings, and you wonder about the people who support them, and the cause of Christ in the meantime. Or whether in the midst of their glorying in such lavishness whether an ounce of thought went to the glory and renown of Christ and His gospel. Mind you, such lavishness in a country teeming with poverty?

You wonder at young people who are so thoroughly occupied with themselves. It's about their 'selfie'! Yup, the world of the 'selfie' very strongly evidences the world of the hedonist self. What? Gal 2:20? Nah...that's only for 'super-spiritual' Christ-followers. Yeah, not even for pastors and full-time workers.

Young people who are so caught up in their careers, and their boy-girl relationships, and who really have no inkling at all about being a 'doulos' of Christ. Young people who simply live for the experience of the moment, of the song, of the music, of the drinks, of the sexual encounter, of the 'relationship'!

I can see why the monastic order came about. It is so much easier to run away from the world and hide oneself in the caves and mountains. So much easier to insulate and isolate one-self from the world. Yet, Christ did not leave us that option. He said to 'go make disciples of all nations'. He said that we are 'in the world', and not 'of the world'. We are to be salt and light to a tasteless and dark world where only the interests, desires and inventions of the sensual self is to be pandered to.

And yes, He is LORD, and He will reign. And tragically, there indeed will only be 'a remnant'. How tragic that many fill houses of worship, even houses of worship which has symbols of the cross, and know nothing about the implication of following a Crucified Savior. In fact, there are quarters of Christianity who use the Crucified Savior who purchased our redemption by His grace as an excuse and insurance against sin and working hard for His kingdom and glory.

Indeed such is the depravity of the human heart that we would use even the Divine to rationalize our attempts to be on par with Him.

Finally, one truly gets to understand why there will be a hell, as real as Jesus preached and taught it for all who refuse His LORDSHIP over their lives.