Who Are You Following

I’m willing to take a risk right now…I have to share this with you so that you can’t say no one told you…I’m telling you…

I am telling you this in love because I love you too much not to say something…everything in moderation…

Are you a talker…? Are you a listener…? Are you a doer…?

Does your life speak LOUD words of faith and hope to the non-believer?

Is Jesus, showing on your face?

Is His Love displayed in your daily living so that others see His reflection in everything you do and say?

Do you have a heart like Jesus? If you do, than you will understand what I’m about to say.

Jesus, is, the Good News…

Jesus Christ (Yeshua), and Him crucified…He is the message for all times…

His life! His glory! His Story!! THE GREATEST STORY EVERY TOLD!!!

With so many distractions in our lives today…it seems there’s hardly enough time to eat, sleep, work and don’t even think about time for play!!

With social media at our finger tips, well, everything and everyone stares us right in the face…we scroll, we text, we read, we write, we covet and complain… in just seconds our little 3×6 device allows us instant access to the world…

We take it with us to work, to school, at home, to the bathroom, when we are shopping, the little pint size cell is never out of our reach and we are mesmerized and paralyzed and dramatized and amazed with every swipe we make…

And we wonder why we don’t have “time” for anything else…

We are addicted to the screens…

Who’s sharing what, and whose friend request will we accept or deny…

What did they make for dinner and who’s having medical issues…

Meme’s what’s in a meme…funny, sad, crude, rude socially unacceptable…and we scroll on…and on… and on…

It’s worldwide…there’s an epidemic…and no one wants a cure…because we don’t even know we are sick…

I was one of the biggest users…until our Church announced a 21 day fast and prayer time I was all in…because of a medical issue I knew I couldn’t fast food…so I prayed and was lead to fast social media for the 21 days. It has been an eye opener to say the least and to say the most; I know I won’t be taken in to the degree I was before the fast. I have had more time to read my Bible and spend time with the Lord in prayer. I’m not as anxious about hitting my -icon, to see what’s going on with whom in the world. The world is going on just fine without me fixating on it every second…

I feel a freedom that I didn’t realize I had given up…

I’m not saying to give up social media completely, all I’m saying is that for me a huge burden has lifted and I am not tied to the tiny screen anymore. I’m liberated and happier, because my time is not being stolen from me. I can live again and do the things that I had been putting off…the stress of not having more time is lifted and I actually talk to people and take walks and enjoy my life, it is fuller and I am content.

Be careful and beware…life is short…you have to make a conscience decision who you are giving your mind over too and what you’re subjecting yourself to.

Don’t follow the crowds…follow Jesus…He is the Good News…He will show you the path to a full, happy, healthy life.

When’s the last time you had a real face to face conversation with your spouse, your kids, your neighbors? When is the last time you went to a restaurant and didn’t take your cell phone, checking it every other minute? Every place you look people have their faces in their cell phones…

We’ve watched Sci-Fi movies about mind control and robots taking over the world…it might even sound to you like, I’ve lost my mind…but I’m telling you, I have found my mind…

Please be wise and take charge of your time and your life…don’t be sucked into the vortex…

The enemy of your soul is extremely shrewd and manipulating…

He knows the heart of man and he uses every tactic to deceive, destroy, steal and kill…

Where is your heart Child-of-God? Where is your treasure? For where your treasure is your heart will be also…don’t give your heart and mind away so easily…try to stop using social media for just one whole day…see how it affects you…then make your decision…I promise you, it will not be easy to give it up…it’s like any other addiction…you’ll make excuses; you want it, you crave it…you enjoy it…you must have it…that’s how you’ll know it has you!!!

This is a wakeup call!!! WAKE UP!!

~Marla Shaw O’Neill August 14, 2018

Matthew 6:21 The Message (MSG) A Life of God-Worship “Don’t hoard treasure down here where it gets eaten by moths and corroded by rust or—worse!—stolen by burglars. Stockpile treasure in heaven, where it’s safe from moth and rust and burglars. It’s obvious, isn’t it? The place where your treasure is, is the place you will most want to be, and end up being.

1 John 2:15-16 New International Version (NIV) On Not Loving the World Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.

Romans 12:2 New International Version (NIV) Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Colossians 3:2 New International Version (NIV) Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.

Proverbs 25:16-17 New International Version (NIV) If you find honey, eat just enough—too much of it, and you will vomit. Seldom set foot in your neighbor’s house—too much of you, and they will hate you.