Looking back at people of the churches that I know, now that I finally have some time to sit down and ponder, God's sovereignty is clear.
It is not how well you can preach and they welcome your message, in the end, the congregants or friends will not be able to choose God, had God not made it available to them. They would act like they love God, if not reject God, but when the veil is off and critical examination is called upon, the god they actually serve is themselves. They are happy because they are being served well, by nature, by the worldly treasures given them. God's blessings indeed.
The problem is not the inability to recognize what is God's blessings. For they do. The real problem is the inability to take the due diligence to meditate and observe and compare, to understand how they are blessed and how they have more than others. If they do, their appreciation of God would not be a mere facebook postings of "How I am blessed by God" or a quote from Jeremiah 29:11. In fact, there probably really is no need to write such postings?
Am I jealous? It may seem so, but I looked at some of these and realized that I am currently more blessed than some of them, by their standards, yet I am not posting such things. In fact, I see a need to rejoice in trembling and serve the Lord with fear. That I am not God.
Why do they? I guess, when one is delusional enough to call serving one's own desire = serving God, calling self indulgence = blessings of God, they are addicted to seek after more and more such dopamine triggers in their lives, be it from their children, their "tribes", their need to show off and have others validate their status of enjoyment through social media. If they call their indulgence God's blessings and others liked it, then they supposed that they do not need to take the due diligence to stop and wonder, if they are actually worshiping themselves or truly praising God.
So the way I see it, if they post these stuff on social media, in such manner instead of the other, they know deep down the vanity that they pursue, but since they do not wish to turn back, for they have become addict, they have convinced themselves that if they could find validation of men, particularly Godly men, supposedly, brothers and sisters in Christ, especially, despite the fact that there are just so many confused Christians around them, then, maybe then, very likely so, their actions are vindicated, if not by God, at least by themselves and the people who clicked on the likes.
What then? Not wanting to brag or seek validation is not the primary reason I don't post these things, personal things. The primary reason is, I just don't trust these social medias to be committed to store my photos and videos or even precious words on the cloud for lasting time. I am already busy trying to organize my albums with my own backups and clouds, I do not want to do the same on these social medias.
