The post below, from Ransomed Heart is really good and it is true
all the way. One thing the author forgot is that these days social media and
technology toys have been ranked right up there with sex. They are used in
order to fill the void we carry within us. They have become our gods and idols, and we
sacrifice all to them.
Don't get me wrong, I am not saying social media and technology are
wrong. On the contrary, we have the opportunity to spread God's word and help
other Christians growing in the Lord. But, like the Israelites, when it
comes to God, we have to have the last word, as such, we fail to let Him use
us, instead, most of us uses these tools like the unbelievers, in the
flesh.
I am afraid most of us will never know the joy of using social media
while being used by God. It is fun, and it brings fulfillment. Mind you, this
does not mean you will be more popular, but each time you decide to post
something, God's hand will be at work through you. Make no mistake, when God is
at work, you will reach those He targeted. His own niche; isn't that wonderful.
Sometimes I read social media posts and I feel, some people calling themselves
Christian need prayers and some are actually in need for people to pray for the
salvation of their souls.
This is an excerpt found in the Ransomed Heart's devotion book
The older Christian wedding vows contained these amazing words: "With my body, I thee worship." Maybe our forefathers weren't so prudish after all; maybe they understood sex far better than we do. To give yourself over to another, passionately and nakedly, to adore that person's body, soul, and spirit—we know there is something special, even sacramental about sex. It requires trust and abandonment, guided by a wholehearted devotion. What else can this be but worship? After all, God employs explicitly sexual language to describe faithfulness (and unfaithfulness) to him. For us creatures of the flesh, sexual intimacy is the closest parallel we have to real worship. Even the world knows this. Why else would sexual ecstasy become the number one rival to communion with God? The best impostors succeed because they are nearly indistinguishable from what they are trying to imitate. We worship sex because we don't know how to worship God. But we will.
We have grown cynical, as a society, about whether intimacy is really possible. To the degree that we have abandoned soul-one-ness, we have sought out merely sex, physical sex, to ease the pain. But the full union is no longer there; the orgasm comes incomplete; its heart has been taken away. Many have been deeply hurt. Sometimes, we must learn from what we have not known, let it teach us what ought to be.
God's design was that the two shall become one flesh. The physical oneness was meant to be the expression of a total interweaving of being. Is it any wonder that we crave this? Our alienation is removed, if only for a moment, and in the paradox of love, we are at the same time known and yet taken beyond ourselves
