Facebook Friends Are Real Friends

There are those who mock our friends on Facebook saying they are not real friends. Others are saying they have heard this too and with the same exact verbiage I have heard by people who don't know each other.

I have to believe it is the devil attempting to discourage believers from engaging with other believers in a world that is so isolating. One of the favored tactics of the devil is to attempt to isolate us from other believers to break down our faith and joy.

We are living in the last days of apostasy, and there are few believers within our community that we have to reach outside our community to find them. God has given us the internet to connect with one another.

I have heard too that Facebook friends are not real friends. Only those who are jealous that we are connecting with people we love and who love us are saying these things.

They say, "but you have never met them in person", and I say; "I have never met Christ in person either but He lives in me."

Some of these people are involved in genealogy on the internet to find their relatives but no one is saying it is foolish because they have never met them. I have little interest in dead relatives that I have never met, they are just names on a page to me, I have no evidence of whether or not they loved Christ and I cannot communicate with them so I have no fascination with it.

Paul connected by letters that we are reading right now in our Bibles. Many believers he never met person to person but had a tender and loving heart for them because the same Christ that lived in him lived in them too.

The same people who say we should stay in long-distance communication with family because they are family will deny the wonderful connection of believers one to another on the internet.

I have to believe the purpose of those who attempt to discourage believers from connecting on the internet is being influenced by the devil to break our hearts, but it won't work because greater is God in us than Satan in them.

Believers I have connected with on the internet have encouraged and enhanced my walk with Christ while those who are family nearby have worked to undermine my walk with Christ.

I choose long-distance love, kindness, and edification through the saints on the internet over nearby mean-spirited relatives who do not love Christ, any day.