Can you imagine what would happen to the American culture if Facebook, twitter, blogs, YouTube, and google, were all shut down overnight? To be honest, I have a lot of out of town friends that I would lose all contact with because I don't see them or have their contact info- just Facebook.
What would schools do, for homework assignments? Almost all of my homework is somehow related to the internet and sites that would be effected by SOPA/PIPA. What about online classes or online public school?
With the American culture being so obsessed with social media (myself included) havering all of them taken away would be quite a shock. But maybe that's what we need. Maybe we need the shock to our systems to bring us back to what is important in life. People are so afraid to miss one if their friends tweets and not know what everyone is talking about later that day. We get so caught up in our little circle. We become self serving. We forget that their are other people who have greater needs than we do.
So say all those major sites went down over night. Sure, it would be weird for a few days, but after the shock has worn off, where would that leave us? Would we, as plugged in Americans, be able to function? Or would we always have this empty feeling?
Its a scary thought, but a reality.
The sad thing is, as Christians, we are just as caught up in this as everyone else. But we KNOW our treasure isn't in this world. Our treasure awaits us in heaven where we have eternal life with our Father. It's time for a heart check. Do we truly believe the words we sing, read, pray, and say in church, claiming we are storing up our treasures in heaven? I don't think most of us are. We live in the here and now, totally connected online.
So my challenge for you this week is this- pray that your goals, your thoughts, your time, would be spent on furthering the Kingdom, and storing your treasures in a place that will last and can't be wiped our over night.
