Entry #6 -- To Like, or not to Like? This definitely IS the question!

So I’m just scrolling along FB enjoying the posts (or most of them) while I sip on my morning coffee…and for some reason I began to give serious attention to specific wording of posts and from whom the posts were sent.  According to Facebook Help Center www.facebook.com , “Clicking Like is a way to give positive feedback and connect with things you care about.”  Well, that’s pretty cool and fairly self-explanatory.  Except…my friends…my Christian friends… do they actually READ what they are Like-ing? Not so sure.

At first glance, it looks great!  If you were encouraged to:

Eat the delicious food.  Walk in the sunshine. Jump in the ocean.  Say the truth that you’re carrying in your heart like hidden treasure.  Be silly.  Be kind.  Be weird.

Wouldn’t you agree that it sounds positively refreshing?  Yeah, just be me for a change!

However, here is the whole post (sun-gazing.com), and when I saw it this morning it already had 214,496 Likes, over 5,202 Comments, and 914,336 Shares.

Note to self:

None of us are getting out of here alive, so please stop treating yourself like an after thought. Eat the delicious food. Walk in the sunshine. Jump in the ocean. Say the truth that you’re carrying in your heart like hidden treasure.  Be silly. Be kind. Be weird. There’s no time for anything else.

Really?  Seriously?

Now I am in no way degrading the good folks at sun-gazing.com; merely saying I’m not so sure I agree, and I definitely cannot Like this post in all good Biblical consciousness. Here is my humble opinion on the matter.

“First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.  They will say, ‘Where is this coming he promised? Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.’”   2 Peter 3:3-4 (NIV)

“For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine.  Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.  They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.  But you, keep your head in all situations…”   2 Timothy 4:3-5a (NIV)

Additionally, both Matthew (chapter 24) and Luke (chapter 17) remind us that in the days of Noah and in the days of Lot, everyone was going about their business as if there were no tomorrow.  Great destruction came suddenly in both cases. Yet there were survivors in each case—those who remained faithful.  So I would rephrase the original quote: 

SOME of us ARE getting out of here alive—those who remain faithful and are alive when Christ returns, and those who remained faithful and though physically dead are resurrected when Christ returns. 

I would further submit what we do with our time DOES matter. 

So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.  Romans 14:12

So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. 1 Corinthians 10:31

Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.  Ephesians 4:32

Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.  1 Thessalonians 4:11-12

Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.  1 Thessalonians 5:16

And finally, I would amend the last statement of the original quote:

There’s no time for anything else—EXCEPT:

“…to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, while we wait for the blessed hope—the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good.”  Titus 2:13-14 (NIV)

“So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with him.”  2 Peter 3:14 (NIV)

“He who testifies to these things says, ‘Yes, I am coming soon.’  Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.  Revelation 22:20 (NIV)

Not sure about you, but I Like that!

Respectfully written and submitted by:

Dotty Willmon, Resurrection Christian