The world is in chaos right now. I’m not sure when you are reading this, but as of June 10, 2020 we are on level 6 of the apocalypse. I am obviously exaggerating, but it feels that way. From the beginning of the year it feels as if things just started to get worse and worse. From my own personal life circumstances. all the way down to what’s going on in the world around me. I am feeling the weight of everything. Not to mention I started to get a tug on my heart on knowing God more. I mean that’s usually what happens, right? We go through times of suffering, times where we have no one else or we don’t know where else to turn therefore to look to God. For me that’s silver lining of all of this. I needed sometime to be still, as my journal says, and hear from God. To God back to Him. Not that I was far away from Him, but life happens you lose focus. Everyone does. That’s human nature.
After all of things that have happened in my life the one constant has been God. He’s been there beside me through every low point and every high point. This time is no different. With all of the chaos around us it is so easy to get consumed by it. I have to be on Instagram for a few hours a day. Not because I want to because I promise you I don’t. But because I need to for my side businesses. Instagram requires you to post everyday and engage with those you follow or they will hind your stuff. I have a jewelry store (www.shopthepinkrose.com) and a podcast (www.makeitknownwithmal.com) and I have to stay engaged to see their growth. With that being said, constantly being on social media can get exhausting. Many times I scroll through and I leave feeling so dejected. We have been fooled into thinking we have to be experts about everything all the time. People have gone from being pandemic experts to racial justice and reconciliation experts in a matter of weeks. With so many messages going around its exhausting.
As a Christian when chaos happens and when the world seems overwhelming, I have to turn back to the Bible for truth. If you are a Bible believing Christian than you believe the only truth comes from God and the way we get and learn that truth is through the Bible. I wanted to get a book review out on this blog few weeks. So much has been going on that I just didn’t. Today I had time to actually sit down and write it. But honestly this is what is on my heart. Just reminding everyone, more especially, myself, we have to spend time in the Bible. As much time as we spend on social media we should try to match with getting in the Word. It is the only thing that can give us hope and it’s the only thing that can rejuvenate us. Lastly, we must remember that it is enough. God’s grace is enough. The Gospel is enough. Jesus’s love for us is enough. These are things I have to come back to when my mind starts racing. There is nothing more that I need. I encourage you to do the same. Get into the Word and spend some time with God. With all of the chaos around us the only true thing we can hold onto and grasp is God’s Word.
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