The faith compromises
What we do every day in our lives has always been important, but so is our faith, even more, if we are Christians. It is evident that our habits over the years change but also the culture changes in our communities and in our society. In this increasingly interconnected world there is an enormous absorbing pressure from our digital and telephone devices, since billions of people own one or more of these devices. This reality has changed many generations in recent decades and led them to an uncontrolled addiction to use more and more of these means. Especially in youth to middle age.
My interest is to see the believing environment that there is nothing negative in the reasonable use of these electronic elements, the problem lies in the objectives for which it is used and in the time that is invested in it. Every Christian has a vocation that God has given him and that we have, in some way, put it at the service of faith.
Christianity is called to build and develop a society that grows in peace with a healthy coexistence where there is justice, respect for human rights and mercy. We are called to bear witness to God’s love and that means realizing that love is a main theme in the Holy Scriptures that tells us that love is a characteristic of the nature of God. “Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.” 1 John 4:8 ESV
For those of us who believe this means going out of ourselves projecting beyond the internal services of each church. The addictive use of digital means that many of them live locked in themselves, or that they live a selfish life that only seeks personal entertainment. When someone walks around looking at the cell phone in their hands, walking surrounded by a wall invisible to others, but that prevents that person from seeing where he walks and not knowing where he is heading. This invisible wall isolates in real form. When someone lives in this way, it is impossible to contribute with their faith to the development and growth of the kingdom of God in this world.
There is a challenge in putting into practice the love of God in our daily lives. “In this love, not that we have loved God but that He loves us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God loves us, we also ought to love one another.” 1 John4:10-11 ESV
Finding satisfaction only in the digital shows us a degree of personal dissatisfaction because it is ignored that there is a light that wisely can make us see that all believers are responsible for a mission that Christ entrusted us with. You have to pray to get to have the discernment and thus glimpse the unique and unrepeatable project that God has for each one of us in this life. All the generations, especially the last ones, can become dynamic and secure a new earth more rooted and profound with the eternal presence of the Holy Spirit. We must remember what the Word says: “Far as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.” James 2:26 ESV.
May God bless you.
