Always Abounding - Spring 2021

to witness to them or inviting them
to church. If I don’t get anywhere
with either of those things, I unfollow
them.
4. I don’t follow people that I do
not know. This seems like a silly rule,
but it’s a hack to boost your followers.
The catch is that you must follow lots
of people too. Why do that? I don’t
care how many followers I have. I’m
putting myself in danger of seeing
something that is sinful when I follow
ungodly people or even Christians who
are not a strong light or potent salt. I
also know that “evil communications
corrupt good manners,” and thus,
I can be influenced by “dwelling
among them, in seeing and hearing,”
as Lot did. Though he was saved, he
lived a defeated, unfruitful life.
5. On Instagram, I only search
for a person if I absolutely must.
I’m not sure why this happens, but I
don’t know of a time that I have hit
the search button that there hasn’t
been a very poorly dressed or even
provocatively dressed girl in the
search area.
I use these tools of social media
for several reasons. One is to give
out the gospel. I try to share salvation
testimonies or other things that have
the gospel message in it. I also want
to encourage believers. I try to post
family pictures to show that you can
still have a godly family. I try to post
pictures about visitors at church or
trying to get visitors out, etc. I try
to share conservative viewpoints to
be “salt” in that regard, as well. If
people are only hearing from the
left, that’s all folks think everyone is
thinking. (I must be careful with these
conservative posts that they do not
contain cussing, etc.)
Here are some Bible verses I use as
laws to follow. I will only highlight part
of the verses. Please take the time to
read the passages in their entirety.
“Be not deceived: evil
communications corrupt good
manners” (I Corinthians 15:33). I can’t
fool myself—I’m not strong enough
to hang around weak people and not
become weak myself. A bad apple
isn’t made good by being put with
good apples. The good apples are
always affected by the bad.
“And if thy right eye offend thee,
pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for
it is profitable for thee that one of thy
members should perish, and not that
thy whole body should be cast into
hell” (Matthew 5:29). I have to be
sensitive to perceive when my social
networking is pulling me away from
God. If it is, it’s done! Time to shut
it down for a while. Nothing’s worth
pulling me from God, His Word, or His
work.
“A companion of fools shall be
destroyed” (Proverbs 13:20). I can’t
“like” or “follow” fools. They will
influence me. As a lady, you should
look for spiritual people who are wise
and follow them (i.e., pastor or pastor’s
wife, youth pastor, godly leadership,
another godly pastor’s wife, etc.).
“Beloved, believe not every spirit,
but try the spirits whether they are of
God: because many false prophets are
gone out into the world” (I John 4:1).
I must do a whole lot of judging on
Facebook to follow this rule. There’s
a bunch of people who claim to be
“Christians” yet are truly far from that!
“Go from the presence of a foolish
(cont., pg 4)
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