I've shared many times about being in a season of obedience but to be perfectly honest as Christians we are called to live a lifestyle of obedience ... a daily dying to ourselves - our needs, our wants, our desires, our sins and taking up our crosses to follow Him in order to take on His desires and wants. Trading our human perspectives for His heavenly perspective.
"31 Then Jesus began to tell them that the Son of Man must suffer many terrible things and be rejected by the elders, the leading priests, and the teachers of religious law. He would be killed, but three days later he would rise from the dead. 32 As he talked about this openly with his disciples, Peter took him aside and began to reprimand him for saying such things. 33 Jesus turned around and looked at his disciples, then reprimanded Peter. “Get away from me, Satan!” he said. “You are seeing things merely from a human point of view, not from God’s.” 34 Then, calling the crowd to join his disciples, he said, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must turn from your selfish ways, take up your cross, and follow me. 35 If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake and for the sake of the Good News, you will save it. 36 And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul? 37 Is anything worth more than your soul? 38 If anyone is ashamed of me and my message in these adulterous and sinful days, the Son of Man will be ashamed of that person when he returns in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.” Mark 8:31-38
There is so much out there in our world at war with our attention that it is easy to lose perspective and peace. Thanksgiving is my most favorite holiday whether it's spent with family or on my own. I just love that the true focus is on thanks, good food and fellowship. I like to rest and put my Christmas tree up the next day in order to prepare for the Christmas season. And I love "sharing" the holidays with my friends through Facebook and seeing all their wonderful pictures. However, I am finding myself doing a lot of comparison and reacting to things I am seeing/reading whether it's news stories, devotional thoughts or life in general. So I am choosing to log off for the Thanksgiving season. I want it to be just be between the Lord and I.
I'll still blog as I feel led to but I won't be posting it on Facebook. I won't post Instagram pics and I won't be copying my Tweets over either. Lol. And if I find that Instagram and Twitter replace the time I spent of Facebook then I'll take those away as well. I just want some down time. I want to cut down on the noise and just enjoy my relationship with the Lord. Do you know what I mean? I don't want to cause myself to stress over what it is that I am not doing enough of in my opinion because the truth is I am doing the best I can. Glory! I'm blessed to work in a wonderful job where I am able to get my work completed fairly quickly so I'd like to better use my down time to read, study and pray vs. endlessly scrolling on Facebook or other social media sites. I'm tired of living my life glued to a screen. I want to disconnect in order to better connect to the Lord and those around me.
Now, I will post one disclaimer ... I still help post blogs for my former job so I have to get on Facebook in order to do that and if an adorable picture of my nephew pops up in my newsfeed during the process then I will like it. It's just that simple! :)
I pray you have a blessed day!
I love you all!!
Blessings ...
- Melody Faith
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