Do not seek to know information about evils God has not called you to do anything about! Seek Him for your calling and leave everything else alone.
Many Christians run around saying this, and saying that, without any attention is given to whether or not they are being called by God to act. They also believe whatever they are reading or watching merely because the people speaking or writing say they are "Christians."
Just "knowing stuff" has no purpose unless the knowledge of it takes us to a place of obedience as led by the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 8:1 "Now concerning food sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge makes one conceited, but love edifies people."
So many Christians are wearing themselves down emotionally and spiritually by filling their minds with sewage about events in the world that they have no control over or cannot vet to prove it is true.
Ephesians 5:11-13 "…11Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. 12For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. 13But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for everything that is illuminated becomes a light itself.…"
When evil passes in front of us we must speak the truth about it, but there is no value in searching for evil to know its details. Once you have seen it because it waltzed in front of you, you can pray about it, but do not look for more to pollute and bring insanity to the mind.
The devil loves to mess with our minds, even bringing news articles we cannot prove are even true. The deception is so intense now, even toward believers, many are being fooled by it. There are probably more false stories on the internet now than true ones. Everything is skewed in one direction or another.
Many years ago when the internet first began most Christians were skeptical about it, they saw it as a disseminator of false news and sensational lies. Brothers and sisters, it still is only now the believers are engaged in it as though everything they read that supports conservatism is absolutely true. This is the great deception God spoke about when He said; "even the elect ( born again believers) will be fooled if it were possible. The original language connotation here is that the elect can be fooled and in a very big way.
Ephesians 5:11
"Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them."
The only advice that needs to be given is to go to prayer and ask God for His Will, then do what He says. If you are honest and obedient you will walk away from internet gossip and news stories and spend your time in the Word of God.
If you do this you will be amazed at the level of discernment that returns to you as well as the peace of Christ. Your heart will not be troubled, but will even increase in joy.
There is an addictive aspect to searching the internet for news stories and current events. There is a "dopamine" rush that takes place in the brain causing the reader or listener to want more and more, almost as addictive as any hard drug. It's worse in one way, that is it is much more subtle and getting a fix is so much easier. However, recognizing its addictive nature is more difficult to discern because those who are addicted feel a sense of righteousness in just knowing things.
Break the addiction to internet news, force yourself to read the Bible instead of rushing to the internet. You will be amazed at the wisdom that opens up to you.
May the Lord bless you as you wean yourself off of the internet addiction to information.
