Today’s background photo pretty much sums up social media! Everyone, everywhere airing their opinions and “blowing smoke!”
- ”A fool finds no pleasure in understanding, but delights in airing his own opinions.” -Proverbs 18:2
- “The tongue is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.” -James 3:8
- “The good person brings good things out of the good stored up in their heart, and the evil person brings evil things out of the evil stored up in their heart. For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.” -Luke 6:45
Our stormy, turbulent, chaotic world is jostling people! And what is spilling out is not healthy. People’s souls are not healthy. People’s souls are poisoned by all the evil they have been consuming.
Just as it would not be healthy to breathe the smoke being spewed in today’s background photo, so also it is not spiritually healthy for our souls to “breathe” all the poisonous “smoke” and “fumes” being spewed out all over social media.
Proverbs 4:23 tells us: “Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.”
So how do we guard our heart?? How do we protect our souls from poisonous “fumes”?
We can’t hide away and completely disengage from our world. How do we guard our heart and protect our souls when we must regularly, daily engage in our world at our jobs and commitments??
We need the Holy Spirit!! The Holy Spirit will guard and protect our hearts and our souls!
“The PEACE of God [the Holy Spirit], which transcends all understanding, will guard/ protect your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:7)
The Sword of the Spirit (which is the Word of God) will produce the Fruit of the Spirit PATIENCE.
