Abiding with Adonai

  Bored? Scroll through a feed. Hungry? Order uber eats. Feeling insecure? Post a picture and get some likes to boost your self-confidence. Can't remember someone's last name? Look them up on Instagram. Feeling like watching a movie? Just click the Netflix app on your phone.  Everything we want is at our fingertips. Right, when we want something- we have access to it.  This world is structured around getting what we want in the quickest way possible. But yet the biggest desire is to want to feel something- Swipe on tinder, Snapchat a picture to that person you know you’re going to get attention from, hook up with that guy, get drunk, do those drugs- Doesn’t matter if it is biblical or even morally right. As long as you can have access to what will make you feel something right at that moment that you desired it, then it's okay.  That is this generation. “Whatever makes you feel good” “Whatever will make you happy”. There are so many things right in front of us that a...

  We live in a world that's all about us. There is a huge push for things like “self-love”, “self-empowerment”, and “this is my body I can do with it what I want”. And these movements are inevitable to come across your phone because they have overtaken pretty much all social media platforms- whether it be a march for rights on the news, a self-love page on Instagram, or even something as simple as a mirror picture at the gym- everywhere you look people are essentially advertising that they “love themselves” and you should too- but this self-love movement is dangerous. We have been pushed to a point that we are believing the lie that we should be loving ourselves more than anything or anyone else- making ourselves the priority. Why is this not okay? Because we are the temple of God and a place for His spirit to dwell.  If you are not a Christian this can be confusing. This life is your only life, so therefore this is your only body, so you should just do with it what you want, ...