Hi y’all! My apology for the lack of posts lately. I have been
keeping busy between classes, studying for the ACT, applying to colleges, and
golf practice. But between all the craziness I managed to write this post and I
was once again reminded how much I love blogging, especially about my faith. More
of my blogs will be faith based rather than fashion because sharing my faith
brings me such joy and truthfully during the school week I mostly just wear
running shorts or tee shirt dresses (not too blog worthy). I hope you will
continue to follow my blog and share your thoughts with me in the comments
below or on Instagram @MonogrammedMadison
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| Afternoon treat and blogging. Iced green tea and an old fashion doughnut. |
Today, I wanted to talk about how material things can cloud our
focus on God. We are all guilty of it. We say we are living solely on God, but
get distracted by all the ‘shiny’ things of this world. Let us not get caught
up in the creations, rather focus on
the Creator himself. We live in a
world that promotes and stresses the importance of always having the newest
things, like electronics and clothes. These temporal things are just that,
temporal. The satisfaction we get from a new phone or dress fades. God’s love
and living with Him in eternity is everlasting.
Along with taking our focus off of God, we tend to define
ourselves by our material possessions. The way you dress, the size of your
house, and the car you drive, are some of the things we use to describe
ourselves or others. God doesn’t use this standard, therefore we shouldn’t
either. The bible says in Peter 3:3-4, it is not fancy hair, gold jewelry, or fine that should make
you beautiful. No, your beauty should come from within you.
To me, social media has this an increasing issue. We log into
Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites and are bombarded
with pictures of all the things people have whether it be what they bought or
pictures from a recent trip. I am not saying social media is bad or it is wrong
to share information on social media. I am saying if we aren’t careful we can
let social media cloud our standard of self-worth and take our focus away from
God. To give a personal example, I recently cleaned out my followers list on
Instagram. The accounts I unfollowed were not doing anything wrong, but the
constant posting of their latest hauls or #ootd made me jealous of their stuff
and distracted me from living for God. I am not saying this criticize others
Instagram accounts; I know I have posted pictures like that too. Without intention, it is easy to get distracted by the material things of this world. It is easy to believe or worship the things we see because, well, we can see them. We are stubborn and tend to have the mindset of we won’t believe it till we see it. The bible says in 2 Corinthians 4:18, so we must focus our eyes not on what is seen, but what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. We cannot see or touch God’s love and mercy for us but it is deeper than anything of this world. I pray that we can refocus our eyes on God and only God. Like Psalm 119:37 says, let God turn our eyes away from worthless things and preserve our lives according to His word.
XOXO,
Monogrammed Madison
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