Deleting items from my inbox is becoming a ritual. How did
all these fear driven, conspiracy motivated, condemning religious people get my
email anyway? I am tired of hearing about ghastly Muslim extremists, gays, bad
government decisions, bad priests and bad doctrine or just bad news in general.
Stop!
There seems to be a mindset in so many “Christians” online
that just seem to wallow in the mire of all this stuff. I just don’t care
anymore for all these issues. I also don’t care for patriotic or sentimental
‘gooshy’ emails that turn faith into emotional slop. I rate them alongside
pictures of puppies or kittens, beautiful sunsets or flowers and I have reached
saturation point. My delete key is becoming overworked.
There, I feel better for a bit of a rant but there is an
issue here. Mostly it is the sense of having been plundered or robbed of something
when I hear or read this rubbish. My faith is affected, my joy is diminished and
my ability to hear from the Holy Spirit is turned off while I deal with the
impact of the imagery I have been subjected to. These things threaten the value
of reading the word of God in the morning and are as useful as a handful of
sand in my gearbox.
The
cure is simple: Philippians 4:8: “Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honourable, whatever is
right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if
there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things.”
How can the Holy Spirit speak through us while our hearts
and minds are dominated by fear-filled junk we learned from the media or the Internet? Do we really need to know?
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