Many years back, our daughter set up Facebook accounts for her parents.
Her mom still checks out her account most days, and actually carries on conversations with a small number of Facebook friends.
Her dad is no more than a passive user of his account. I look at posts frequently, but never have communicated through the account.
If I want to talk to someone, I’ll just call them on my cell phone and carry on a real conversation.
Lately, I’ve been troubled by a long-time Christian brother’s posts. He left Santa Barbara quite some time ago.
Over the past month or so, I’ve been saddemed by the content of quite a few of his posts. Some could easily be considered downright hateful.
Those posts have been directed toward President Donald Trump and DOGE director Elon Musk.
So far, I’ve been unable to talk to this fellow in person, but he did respond to a voice mail letting me know that he did not want to talk to me if I was going to try to persuade him into supporting the MAGA movement.
He also suggested I read a parable of Jesus in Matthew 25.
After reading the whole chapter, which includes three distinct prophecies regarding the End Times, I quickly realized he misintrepreted what Christ was conveying to His audience.
Jesus’ parables are not just for His 1st century followers, but for all generations. These parables were not written to be used out of context and wrongly interpreted for our personal peeves.
It appears some Christian influencers are doing just that to defend their ideology for an open border.
The words of Jesus were not transcribed to resolve social issues. They are given to us for the sole purpose of salvation of the unconvinced masses in this lost and perverted world.
Listen to these powerful words of Paul addressed to his young protégé, Timothy, in 2 Timothy 3:16-17: “All scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.”
The work Paul refers to places no emphasis on social issues. He’s simply talking about the single purpose of God’s Holy Word.
God’s desire is for all to seek His righteousness — not rebelliously and divisively waste our lives defending social justice.
Listen to these words of Jesus found in Matthew 6:33-34: “But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
Let’s dispose of all this divisiveness in abusing God’s Holy Word! We simply need to make the Main Thing the Main Thing!