The world and the Word at our fingertips

 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 are supposed to bring us happiness and fulfillment. But the problem is that when we choose to do one, it doesn’t sustain us, and the moment that are experience is over and now we feel nothing again, there is always the next thing waiting… 

It is an easy-access world we are living in, and it is confusing our view of God and holding us back from going deeper into faith. (I know that it did for me at least). 

Think about it- what when we are spiritually deprived? What happens when we read our bible, pray for 30 seconds and feel nothing? We are over it. Why would I spend time trying to build a relationship with a God that supposedly loves me, when I don’t feel anything right at this very second? I could just go on my phone right now and scroll through TikTok and feel more emotions than I do at this moment as I sit in front of my opened bible which might as well be an empty page.  

The way our world is being built is making us lose sight, of the most important part of Christianity- relationship with Christ. Christianity is looked at as a religion now- reading an ancient book everyday, having to pray sophistically, following a bunch of laws… But this couldn’t be a more wrong view of what it looks like to be a Christian. 

Our relationship with Christ is built solely on His love for us. Nothing that we could ever say or do would make our relationship with Him start- the start of our relationship began when He stretched out his arms and died for us on the cross. Now, all we have to do in this relationship is seek to grow in wisdom. That's the answer. I always remember thinking what was the thing that I was missing in christianity? I went to church, read my bible, had Christian friends, and listened to Christian music…. But it was all head knowledge and no heart change. But as I started to read my Bible for the purpose of growing in wisdom- my heart began to change. I no longer wanted to memorize scripture with the purpose of just knowing more than the next person, but I wanted to know God more. I wanted to step deeper every single day into understanding His love for me. Was this at the click of a button? No. It was a process & took time. But yet the access to this relationship and to His love was right in front of me.

But the truth that I have soon learned? I will never fully understand the Word and I will never fully grasp his Love- and His design of slowly allowing me to come to understanding is one of the sweetest things He has done for us.  

But yet that is what stops so many people from growing in relationship with the Lord… They don't feel anything or don’t understand something the moment they pray or read- so they just stop. They start just going through the motions of surface-level Christianity, and think that is as good as being a Christian will ever get… A little bit of Jesus here, and then a little bit of sin there. That’s the christian life right?

I can first-hand attest- IT IS NOT, & I used to think it was! Every day it gets sweeter when you keep on pushing for that relationship with your Creator. 

I don’t always feel God. I'm not always in this overwhelming state of being in the presence of the Holy Spirit. There is a special place & divine appointments for that. When I'm at church singing worship music, or alone in my room having a conversation with my Savior, I might feel a heavy presence of the Spirit. But sometimes, I might not. 

If I felt the overwhelming weight of that all of the time, it wouldn’t be as special. The superior reality of that feeling wouldn't be any less, but my broken human mind wouldn’t find it as special if it was an everyday & all the time thing. 

But I keep pushing when I don’t feel it- & that's what RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM IS. 

I trust Him fully. I know that He is Yahweh. I don’t always feel a spiritual high. But I know that His word is true and that He is who He says He is. So when I can't feel anything, I keep praying for wisdom, I keep reading my Bible, and I keep being obedient. 

His love is a never-ending ocean, and I have just barely dipped my toes in the water. Every day I want to go deeper and deeper. I don’t ever want to reach a point where I have experienced all there is to God or learned all there is to know about Him. Contrary to the way the world thinks- I want to be given glimpses of Heaven slowly in sweet, small, amazing pieces. 

What is stopping you from opening a Bible and reading it today? What is standing in the way of you spending the next couple of minutes talking to Jesus? He is here, and He is available to us. & He is so much deeper, sweeter, and more fulfilling than anything the world has to offer.

The things that this world has made so easily accessible for us are fading-  One day there will be a new thing to take its place. But the Lord and His word stand forever. 

We were never meant to have everything we wanted at the tip of our fingers. 

We are made to worship our Creator and tell people about Him. 

Learn to trust and wait. Learn to love His slowness in growing you. Don't let the fast pace, easy-access mentality of this world blur your vision of what life as a Christian is supposed to be like.


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