Many thoughts raced through my mind as I was recalling how the Lord led me to Facebook and why He did that. When we are "gospel minded" and "brethren minded" we have a tendency to see every means of communication as a way to encourage the believer and bring the gospel to others. We love the sweet interaction with believers from all over the world who also love our Lord. We love that we can bring truth to a dying world before it is too late.
When we are heavenly minded, with little regard for preserving this worldly life we will see every media as a means to obey the Great Commission. I would like to encourage those who are using Facebook to further the gospel and encourage other believers to ignore the negative comments and useless chatter of those who have little regard for the spread of the gospel.
I am hearing so much foolishness coming from obscure news sources that are nothing more than tabloids. Remember the day as a child when we walked through the grocery lane and saw those small newspapers that told us of aliens having human babies!!!? Yes, these news sources are just like the internet tabloids, they feed on sensationalism but do nothing to further the Kingdom of God.
I see Facebook no differently from a letter written to a believer. The only difference, and it is a big one, is that we can reach the entire world from our chairs in our house on the computer. These are letters to our brethren and tracts to the unbelievers except through a means that has been given to us by God in these last days, far more reaching than one letter written on paper sent through the post office mails to a church or a friend. We can interact instantly in chat and text having a conversation with someone whom we have never seen in person but shares our love for the Lord.
Every single believer can reach other believers and the unsaved through the internet every single day across the globe. If we have a Facebook page I believe this is God's will for us as born-again believers.
There is no eternal value in using Facebook to boast about ourselves or our lives, in fact, it detracts from the gospel. As believers, we share some happy things we have encountered in our lives, its natural and a blessing, but when this is all someone does then it has become a medium to self elevate.
I enjoy the various life experiences with my Facebook friends and aspects of their life, but more than that I love to hear them speak of our Lord. These are the last days, we may not have much longer to fulfill our calling to share the gospel and to encourage one another in a world that is self-destructing before our very eyes.
Jesus Christ must be our reason for everything we do. It is not wrong to share some of our life with others, but when it becomes a medium for only this, then it has little value.
John 3:25-30
25 Then a matter of dispute developed on the part of John’s disciples with a Jew about purification.
26 And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, He who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified—behold, He is baptizing and all the people are coming to Him.”
27 John replied, “A person can receive not even one thing unless it has been given to him from heaven.
28 You yourselves are my witnesses that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but, ‘I have been sent ahead of Him.’
29 He who has the bride is the groom; but the friend of the groom, who stands and listens to him, rejoices greatly because of the groom’s voice. So this joy of mine has been made full.
30 He must [d]increase, but I must decrease."
Remember the day of your wedding ladies? You were so excited that the day was approaching, the groom was the only subject on your mind. The person you spoke of the most was the one you would soon marry, the one with whom you would spend the rest of your life.
We are the bride of Christ, He is our Groom. We ought to be speaking of Him more than anything else. We would not hold back our joy and testimonies of our marriage in an earthly relationship, how much more should we speak of our Groom, that is the Lord Jesus Christ.
My encouragement to you is that you ignore the comments that demean what you are doing on Facebook and keep "soldiering on" as if you never heard the negative comments. Pondering them for more than five seconds is too long. They are tools of the devil to discourage us from speaking about Christ.
2 Timothy 2:3-4
"3 Suffer hardship with me, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. 4 No soldier in active service entangles himself in the affairs of everyday life, so that he may please the one who enlisted him."
We are a soldier, we do not fight with weapons of this world, we fight our warfare in the Spirit of God, through prayer and fasting. This life is not for our pleasures or personal accomplishment, it is to glorify God until He comes for us.
2 Corinthians 10:3-5 "…3 For though we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh. 4 The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the world. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. 5 We tear down arguments and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.…"
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