Waking up to the new aggressiveness of Satan to plan out our thinking.
Who tells me to do what I do? God’s word is my authority, but the world is directing me to maximize time constraints.
Is efficiency the constant connection to information?
Is your thinking impeded by 16 seconds or a whole day apart from the media, whether right or left leaning?
Can you take thoughts captive if you are always engaged? Wake up to your own captivity. Wake up to your sleeping at the wheel. You are a robovehicle, directed by the great unseen “ISH”. SqueemISH, are you about your attachment? Try to disconnect and see what happens.
WHo is the Nebby, pulling the strings of your anticipations and of your heart throbs? Are you submitting to God in your knowledge? Do you start your day in His care? Is your computer and your social media posts your first thought? Who is hearing me? Who am I needing to hear from? What do “they” think about what I am in my profession, etc.?
Is that my earliest thought in the morning? It is so hard to get away from it. I must chase the carrot that is everybody’s agreed priority. I must teach myself to follow what is acceptable. I say these things to myself to fit in. God lets us fit in and then he takes us off the beaten path in front of our friends to test us. Who cracks the whip over our souls? Do we even know?
He is mighty to deliver us from our own predispositions to conformity. If we are not conforming to Christ it is easy to slip into the conformity of the world without even recognizing it. There are acceptable Christian paths that are not even Biblically based. Many online stores and social media paths that are building the coffers of who knows who? God is shaking us so that we know who we are attached to. In Jeremiah, I can see how the worldly takeover of the children of God in the captivity was so very confusing. God was judging and showing them that He will not share his allegiance. It is Him or you? If you are connected to Christ and His people, he is guiding you. When Nebuchadnezzar came in, God gave some people their own lives as their ransom in the midst of complete devastation. They couldn’t stay where they were, God was turning things upside down and showing Himself as the Sovereign. Not human reasoning. Some prophets thought God was going to deliver them, some thought it was time to go back to Egypt, some thought it was stand and deliver. God said prepare to live in captivity to the Babylonians. What? The Babylonians? They were the lowest of the low to everybody, they weren’t like Egypt. They weren’t pretty? They weren’t part of the history. They were a new commodity and they almost killed Jeremiah for suggesting that God was going to do such a thing.
Can we set up shop and live in a new season? Can we find godliness and use technology for God’s glory? It is indeed a new land and a new thinking pattern. It is a new boss over our conscious thought. Do we need to communicate in that way? 24/7 accessibility to our own minds and thinking? Do we have limits that we have set on our communications? Do we have places in cyberspace that we won’t go? Do we ever take a break or is it completely controlling us?
I love God that He knows our frame and he remembers that we get tangled in the barbwire of our own making. He knows we don’t have self control.
How?
Why?
What step comes first?
