“We were created not to be Liked but to show love.”

A thought by Craig Groeschel (2015-10-27) from his book, #Struggles: Following Jesus in a Selfie-Centered World (p. 20). Zondervan. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)

I love Social Media. It is a tremendous vehicle to do so many things. But as Craig in his new book that I am now reading says, “You love technology and all it offers. But you also hate it.”

He goes on, “I can’t prove this, but I have some theories, which I’ll be sharing, about why we hate social media. In a nutshell, it makes everything so much about us. We’re sucked into measuring our lives by how many followers we have and who they are. We want to believe we’re not the sum of the Likes our last post received, but it still feels like those little clicks matter. The odd thing is the more we focus on our selves, the less satisfied we feel. And the more we’re consumed with the things of this earth, the more we feel empty.”

He also said, “Even if you’ve never tweeted, posted, uploaded, or commented, you still live in a selfie-centered world. And in your heart, you know there’s more than what you see.”

And that is so true. He says, “The reason is that we were created for more— much more. We were created not for earth but for eternity. We were created not to be Liked but to show love. We were created not to draw attention to ourselves but to give glory to God. We were created not to collect followers but to follow Christ.”

He then says, “It’s time to put technology back in its place. It’s time to love God with our whole hearts.”

It has its place but it never can take the place of what God wants to do in your life.

So what is controlling you – Like or love?

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