Cup of coffee.... number three? yeah, three. Soon to be four. Yesterday I had very little coffee and today I can't seem to pump it in fast enough. Go figure!
For the last month or so I have been thinking about people.
Not anyone in particular, but collectively. What deduction did I come to? There is a hole, almost like a piece is missing. Believers and unbelievers alike, it's not just those who check the facebook questionnaire box Christian.
More and more I'm pulling away from the facebook world.
Throughout the school year I was a hard core facebook junkie. But as I look at it, I don't like what I see. It's shallow.
Who cares what someone else ate for breakfast or that they have a song stuck in their head! Welcome to the hole.
Irony of it, one of my facebook friends wondered why people aren't being authentic with each other.
Lately I have been hitting brick walls on this matter, dealing with people my own age. It's not about people judging, or having a "me" focused philosophy,and it's not an issue of whether you show Christ's love or not. These things all hit around the main issue. Which is, are you who you are 100% of the time, or are you a different person in public then you are in private?
A lot of the time people are not the same both in public and in private. They are happy go lucky, let's love everyone, thrilled with life in public and depressed, upset, and angry in private. Often times people like to hold shallow conversation if you meet them for coffee or something, but if you talk to them in a car they become much more forth right if you are willing to listen.
Most people aren't the way you think they are 100% of the time. Think about it this way. For years society has told people, no one wants to hear your problems. Just tell everyone that everything is roses, and smile while crap rains down on you. Now days we still have that mentality ingrained in people, but society is now switching tactics. Because now people are being told everyone in the world is happy and they deserve to be happy too. BUT you have to remember that people are shoving down their feelings and smiling because no one wants to hear their problems.
So, now what we are faced with is a shallow society who tell everyone everything is rainbows and sunshine in their life. While stuffing down problems that need to be discussed but don't because they want to seem "problem free" like everyone else. So they can only keep a shallow conversation going without bursting the problematic flood gates. And if someone asks a quote, "personal question" they lash out. And call the person judgmental because of their own personal conviction. Because they know that there is some sort of inner term-oil that they can't keep shoved down forever!
Believe it or not that is only talking about unbelievers..
Believers have a whole other box of beans to deal with, on top of that!
So many believe think that they can lose there salvation because of what they do. So if they don't admit that they have a problem they are stuffing down then they "obviously" don't have any problems. What happens is this leads to a bunch of Christians who are upset, confused, and shallow.. Because they don't feel that they can say anything without God's wrath coming upon them. The problem with this is that because the Bible points out personal flaws, Church's don't like to teach the bible because it makes people feel convicted and uncomfortable. And because of that many Churches are becoming nothing more then a social club who like to wear Jesus loves me tee-shirts. (Sometimes I wonder if they get those shirts on whole sale discount, or something).
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