Remember, therefore, what you have received and heard; obey it, and repent. But if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you. Revelation 3:3
Christians on Facebook are best described as a pack of ravenous wolves. One wolf would not be very threatening, but when one becomes twenty-one, then the prey should beware. Christians are like this. Before Facebook came along and gave every person with a keyboard and a connection the ability to talk to every other such person (efficiently too) each Christian was a wolf without a pack. Now we are in a pack. Now we are getting ourselves really worked up. We're sharpening our fangs and looking for prey. The thing is, there is so much prey about! More than we can handle, but that's not a bad problem to have.
Maybe the wolf analogy didn't sit too well. Ok, let me continue with a tornado analogy. Everyone knows that a tornado is a twisting menace. Turning about, it lays waste to anything in its path. The key to its power is that it moves in such tight circles. Each breeze feeds another breeze, which then becomes a gust feeding other gusts. The tornado turns faster and faster, stronger and stronger. It is a cataclysm of catastrophe, centered on a revolving center. Christians use their connections, pages or whatever else to edify each other. By adding every little breeze (not from a mouth but from a keyboard) the Christians on Facebook have created a tornado. And from a tight fast twisting center the wind goes outward. But then there is so much air that doesn't get turned about. Imagine an atmosphere of nothing but tornado!
Ok, so the wolves seem too obscene and a tornado is too destructive. These are not good ways to describe Christians. Alright then, I'll try better with this final analogy: a thief. Christians represent their master on earth, just like ambassadors represent other countries. We all know that Christ, the Master of all Christians, comes like a thief. So Christians, at times, come like a bunch of thieves too. With Facebook being the great big house that it is, Christians have been able to enter without notice. We have snuck in through an unlocked window like a thief in the night. We have definite intentions, but it would, of course, be a crime to reveal those intentions. Just try to protect little Bobby from us if you can. We do, afterall, fish for men.
Just like a fire, which causes light in dark places, the Spirit of God starts small. But whenever you have a small fire, even just the flame of a match, and a bunch of fuel to burn, that fire gets bigger. Before long the fire has consumed everything; the whole forest has burned down. And the light shines bright when the forest is on fire. Night turns into day, and it started with just one simple flame. Of course the fire and the light do not come of their own, but there is a force that drives it. God's Spirit is an unstoppable force that is invading the world. The world belongs to Satan, but only for the moment. God is invading just like the thief invades a house, and this thief cannot be stopped. What now is Satan's will one day be God's. The thief will steal the whole house!
Christians on Facebook are best described as a pack of ravenous wolves. One wolf would not be very threatening, but when one becomes twenty-one, then the prey should beware. Christians are like this. Before Facebook came along and gave every person with a keyboard and a connection the ability to talk to every other such person (efficiently too) each Christian was a wolf without a pack. Now we are in a pack. Now we are getting ourselves really worked up. We're sharpening our fangs and looking for prey. The thing is, there is so much prey about! More than we can handle, but that's not a bad problem to have.
Maybe the wolf analogy didn't sit too well. Ok, let me continue with a tornado analogy. Everyone knows that a tornado is a twisting menace. Turning about, it lays waste to anything in its path. The key to its power is that it moves in such tight circles. Each breeze feeds another breeze, which then becomes a gust feeding other gusts. The tornado turns faster and faster, stronger and stronger. It is a cataclysm of catastrophe, centered on a revolving center. Christians use their connections, pages or whatever else to edify each other. By adding every little breeze (not from a mouth but from a keyboard) the Christians on Facebook have created a tornado. And from a tight fast twisting center the wind goes outward. But then there is so much air that doesn't get turned about. Imagine an atmosphere of nothing but tornado!
Ok, so the wolves seem too obscene and a tornado is too destructive. These are not good ways to describe Christians. Alright then, I'll try better with this final analogy: a thief. Christians represent their master on earth, just like ambassadors represent other countries. We all know that Christ, the Master of all Christians, comes like a thief. So Christians, at times, come like a bunch of thieves too. With Facebook being the great big house that it is, Christians have been able to enter without notice. We have snuck in through an unlocked window like a thief in the night. We have definite intentions, but it would, of course, be a crime to reveal those intentions. Just try to protect little Bobby from us if you can. We do, afterall, fish for men.
Just like a fire, which causes light in dark places, the Spirit of God starts small. But whenever you have a small fire, even just the flame of a match, and a bunch of fuel to burn, that fire gets bigger. Before long the fire has consumed everything; the whole forest has burned down. And the light shines bright when the forest is on fire. Night turns into day, and it started with just one simple flame. Of course the fire and the light do not come of their own, but there is a force that drives it. God's Spirit is an unstoppable force that is invading the world. The world belongs to Satan, but only for the moment. God is invading just like the thief invades a house, and this thief cannot be stopped. What now is Satan's will one day be God's. The thief will steal the whole house!
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