What God taught me during my 14-day Facebook Fast!

As most of you know, our son, Jonah, has been diagnosed with a congenital heart defect. There are only 40 known cases in the World so it is a very rare case. He has been undergoing all sorts of tests, including 2 heart caths, echocardiogram, cardiac MRI, etc to see what they are going to do. During all of this I was finding myself going to my personal FB page to kind of “escape” our reality, BUT what I was finding is there was so much negativity on FB. Negativity that I have never seen before. I was seeing friends degrading other friends for who they voted for in this election, etc and for that reason I decided to take a 14-day fast from my personal FB page for over two weeks. I decided I needed to get more in God’s word and seek His wisdom and His discernment. When I get done reading His book, I don’t feel that depressed, but uplifted.

It truly was a blessing to step away from facebook 🙂 I am so tired of seeing all the negativity and then people complain about negativity. If we truly are tired of negativity, then we need to be the change. We cannot be negative and then say “well I had to comment, because I didn’t agree with what was on their FB page”. One thing I am certain of, is you WILL NOT change someone’s opinion by being negative or nasty. When we do that, people become defensive.

I choose to ONLY post positive things, I hope many of you will join me. I choose to surround myself with positive people. I am not saying we will not have problems or we may need someone to talk to, but we can do that tastefully. We can encourage others. When people are putting such hateful things on FB, I think we all need to reevaluate our own life. It is easy to point out others downfalls, but do we just as quickly look in the mirror and see our own downfalls/shortcomings? Rather than looking at their downfalls, maybe we need to re-read what we have put on FB and see if it is pleasing to God. As quickly as we ask Jesus for mercy and grace are we willing to show others that same mercy and grace as quickly?

I think social media is a great thing, but it has also done so much damage to our society. It has allowed people to hide behind a keyboard and type nasty comments, things that most people would not say to those people in person. I choose LOVE. I choose JOY. I choose to be a light in this dark world. I want God to use me as a vessel in all areas of life. I completely surrender my life to him, in all areas. I need to focus on what he can do and not what I can’t do. God’s plans are so much better than ours and I don’t have to convince someone to think like me, all I need to do is show Love and Kindness. #Kindnesswins #LoveNeverFails. Praying you all have a great day. Love you all <3

Have you ever fasted from FB? What did God reveal to you?

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