Facebook: What's on Your Mind?

The Word of God teaches in Proverbs 18:2 that.... Fools have no interest in understanding; they only want to air their own opinions.

In a day where our thoughts have found their way to the social media sites like Face Book, it is all too easy to be a "fool" with our words. This verse should be taken seriously and has changed the way I will use my words on any media site.   

The question asked of us each and every time we log onto our home page is, "What's on your mind?"  Most days I post a scripture or something I've been learning in the Word.  Some days I  just tell people what we are doing. There have been days when I should have stopped my fingers from typing "what was on my mind" and really just unplugged and thought about how my post would affect my readers.  I have also had status' which I should have not posted at all, because of the mood I was in that moment or maybe I was offended at someone and was trying to make a point,  knowing they would read it (the motive of our heart)! 

Social  media is hard because we aren't relating face to face, we can't hear the inflection of our "friend's" voices so we can easily misinterpret "what's on their mind".   Sometimes status or posts are offensive because the words are convicting which is not a bad thing.   I'm  not against being offensive when the time calls for TRUTH to be spoken in love.  You will definitely offend those who don't desire or believe the truth of God's word.  No doubt!  That's not what I'm referring to.  I use face book all the time to share God's word with others.  I will not apologize for it  but what I have been convicted about is that letting our fingers do the talking on our keyboards is easy. It's made it so easy to share God's word on a media site but can also be a little cowardice if I might say that. 

I started asking myself, am I this bold and outspoken for the Lord when I'm face to face? Would I say some of the things I have shared on face book to some one's face? I think I would, but on other days depending on who the person is I might not be quite so bold and confident? Just being honest. It's really made me think about my witness in word and in action. Do my words I so frequently type on my status match my walk? Have the words I've typed so openly and freely hurt others or offended those in an unkind way? I would never want to do that on purpose. Do I seem "self righteous" by the things I post about my activities or my ministry for Christ in this world? Truthfully, I have even considered deleting my face book page lately because of how easy it makes it to seem bold and confident because you aren't face to face. Although, I hate to do that because I think it can be used as a tool to promote the word of God with others you don't see everyday.

If the bible tells us a fool has no interest in understanding, they only want to air their own opinions.  Maybe, some days we should just not post a status at all.  Just leave it blank.  Better to be a man or woman of few words than to be a fool who gives full vent to their anger, bitterness, self-righteousness or whatever our words reveal about our heart.  Some things that are "on our minds" aren't meant to be shared with our Face Book "friends".  God's word tells us "In the multitude of words, sin lies at the door".  Ouch!  Women use so many words.  Just look at how many I have used in this post! 

I have seen some pretty critical and judgmental comments on some post lately. I'm sure I've posted a few like that over the years too.  It just got me thinking about how powerful our words are.  Also, how our thoughts written for all to see can dishonor our Savior or just paint a wrong picture of who we really are. Anyone else ever think like this about social media?  Any comments, any thoughts on this?  I would love to hear if others ever stop and think about what they are typing each day and how their words either bring life or death to the reader.  I want to get some feedback on this subject.