Social media is the ideal avenue for painting ourselves with perfection. We can be who we want to be, even if we must trim our waistline, thicken our hair, and beef up our frame. Hey, we can be younger, too, with a few clicks of the mouse. Pixel perfection, ideal in every way, the perfect companion for every situation.
We’d better be careful that we don’t meet our online friends. They might find out the truth.
A better option is to improve ourselves in the real world. Let’s look at five steps we can take toward achieving our ideal self.
Ecclesiastes 6:1-2 reveals the shallowness of working for things:
“There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it lies heavy on mankind: a man to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to enjoy them...”
Ecclesiastes 7:1 says our satisfaction comes from upholding Godly standards:
“A good name is better than precious ointment...”
Ecclesiastes 7:5 makes our choice of companions clear:
“It is better for a man to hear the rebuke of the wise than to hear the song of fools.”
Ecclesiastes 7:9 assures us our outward responses tell others who we really are:
“Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the heart of fools.”
Ecclesiastes 8:15 tells us to cast off our gloomy cloak and to be happy in the Lord:
“And I commend joy, for man has nothing better under the sun but to eat and drink and be joyful, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of his life that God has given him under the sun.”
Can we truly achieve perfection while walking this earth? It’s doubtful. We can, however, strive toward the goal we read of in Revelation 21:4:
“He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
We are the social media face of Christ, and we are still under development. One day we will stand before him in the perfection of his eternal salvation. Until then, we can take one footstep at a time as we strive to become like him.
The perfect picture of us should reflect the perfection found in Jesus.
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