Above All Things

I leave this message as a public notice to anyone who may be either receiving or are tempted to post hurtful posts or comments on social media platforms. I am not going to argue with anyone about anything, not on Facebook, not on Wordpress or Blogger or anywhere else. Anything I post on any of these platforms I do out of a sincere heart, and anyone who sees it is welcome to approve or not, but I am not going to respond to insults, rebukes, judgment or accusations. If anyone has anything to say to me, they are welcome to comment, but I will not respond to anything that is meanspirited, rude or venting bitterness. I don't single anyone out, or leave anyone out, and I don't send my blog to anyone, I only post it on a public platform. Social media is not a place to have a relationship. If anyone I know personally does not like something I write, they are welcome to call me on the phone because they have my phone number. Otherwise, they are wasting their time and mine commenting bitterly and angrily on Facebook or Wordpress. No one has responded that way on Blogger. I know many people on Facebook do not agree with my politics or my religion but we can still be friends on Facebook, and, really, are all these platforms really about friendship anyway? Or are they really just a way to declare things, to post our opinions and share things in a general way to people we know or don't know? Most of the people who disagree with my politics or religion are still my friends on Facebook, but nothing really personal happens there anyway. People are going to be your friend or they're going to be your enemy, or perhaps they are going to mean nothing to you, but, really, we are supposed to love our friends and our enemies. I am estranged from someone now who loved to vent in emails, and we had a back and forth until I finally said, "I'm not going to do this anymore. This is not communicating." And it wasn't, and it isn't. I said it was cowardly, and it was, and it is. People should talk to each other if they want to communicate. We all fail in many ways, and we have all made bad choices in our lives. As we get older, especially, we think about these things. The wisdom of the world is not helpful at all. You may want to read Romans 3:23, Romans 6:23, Ephesians 4:14-15, Romans 8:1, and 1 Peter 4:8. To save you the trouble of looking up these verses, I'll just include them here: ..."All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23). "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 6:23). "...that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head--Christ--from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for edifying of itself in love" (Ephesians 4:14-15). "There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit" (Romans 8:1). "And above all things have fervent love for one another, for love will cover a multitude of sins" (1 Peter 4:8).