On Monday, I felt the Holy Spirit tell me to read 1 Corinthians 10. Here’s what I felt the Holy Spirit telling me as I read it.
We’ll start from verse 1. “I don’t want you to forget, dear brothers and sisters, about our ancestors in the wilderness long ago. All of them were guided by a cloud that moved ahead of them, and all of them walked through the sea on dry ground. In the cloud and in the sea, all of them were baptized as followers of Moses. All of them ate the same spiritual food, and all of them drank the same spiritual water. For they drank from the spiritual rock that traveled with them, and that rock was Christ. Yet God was not pleased with most of them, and their bodies were scattered in the wilderness. These things happened as a warning to us, so that we would not crave evil things as they did, or worship idols as some of them did. As the Scriptures say, ‘The people celebrated with feasting and drinking, and they indulged in pagan revelry.’ And we must not engage in sexual immorality as some of them did, causing 23,000 of them to die in one day.”
As I read this, I felt the Holy Spirit tell me that I, that is every believer, should put aside the things of this world that distract us from spending time with Him. That keep us from building our relationship with our Lord Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father.
That we are not desire the things that the world desires or worship the idols of this world.
For me, it means cutting back TV and social media to a minim, and spend more time in prayer and reading the word. Now, for some of you, it may require you to cut out these things altogether at least for a little while until you get over the “addiction” to these things. While others, like myself, will have to learn to schedule both our TV and social media times for like an hour or less of each.
Take an hour to check up on friends, post a few things, etc. Now this doesn’t necessary mean an hour at once, but an hour total. It’s one thing to post a quick post if Yahweh leads you to share a bible verse or something. But it’s another to waste hour after hour on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, etc taking in all the smut and garbage that people post on there sometimes. These things can lead us astray and cause us to compromise our believes little by little.
The same goes for TV. If you’re taking an hour or so to watch a quality program or an uplifting teaching, it’s all well and good. But if you’re watching hours and hours of useless, mind numbing, pointless crap just to pass the time away, then it has become an idol – a baby-sitter for our brains.
What we put into our minds matters. What we spend the majority of your time doing matters. It shows what is truly important to us. Even human studies have shown that we spend the majority of our time outside of work doing what is most import for us. Now if human wisdom can understand that, shouldn’t us believers who have the Holy Spirit’s Heavenly wisdom in us?
Now, I’m not saying that TV or social media are evil, they are only tools – they are neither good nor evil, it’s all in how you use them or what kind of hold do they have on you. They are great tools, but very bad masters.
There is so much more i could say about these verses but for time’s sake, we’ll go more in depth in the next blog.
So let’s come out from behind our screens and get back into the word, in prayer and spending time with the One who really matters. In building our relationship with Jesus Christ.
We cannot change the world if we don’t stop thinking like it. You can’t stop thinking like the world if you don’t spent time with Jesus and let Him teach you through the Holy Spirit.
Remember, you will always make time for the things that matter to you – especially the thing (person) that matters to you most.