REAL NEWS ABOUT FAKE NEWS
Whether we want to believe it or not, Fake News exists and it is real.
I don't know how many articles I've read on social media and thought, "That can't be true!" after looking it up and simple fact checking, I found there was no truth to it at all. Sometimes you know it must be fake, because if it was true... people would be in a complete uproar! But so many don't fact check, they read the news, share the news and proclaim it as true. Once everyone is in an uproar, someone decides to check it, but by then our emotions and thoughts have already been compromised. Whether we realize it or not, we are part of the problem.
In our nation some laugh and others scoff at the very mention of "Fake News" but there is a basis for calling some of it fake. I don't agree that everything we hear from major networks is wrong, but I do realize that it is normal for them to tell a biased story, or only give the facts they want to share because it gives the desired result. Because of this, we have learned to question everything and almost believe nothing.
This blog today is not meant to fix our world's politics or the way it functions, today we want to deal with FAKE NEWS in the world you live in.
2 Timothy 4:1-8
Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.
In the Church, we also have problems with FAKE NEWS disguised as GOOD NEWS.
The real deal is that fake news in not new. God knew there was going to be a day that we would hear the truth and take it as a lie. We would decide what we want to believe and would be able to get people to follow our "fake news". Stop going to churches that simply scratch your itching ears. We need our ears CLEANED. The bible says "He who has ears to hear, let him hear." It is time for us to rise up and admit that what God has said is what He has said. We can't change it to feel better and we can't allow others to think He didn't mean it.
The funny thing is the Good News is exactly that! It is good news for everyone. We all have a place that God has prepared for us, but to get there we have to accept what His son, Jesus has done for us, the price He paid for our sins. Fake News wants us to believe that anything goes and that our lives are only going to be full of prosperity and good stuff... That my friend, as good as it sounds it is Fake News.
My pastor said "It costs you nothing to get Him (Jesus) but it will cost you everything to follow Him." His yoke is easy and His burden is light, but most of us are carrying our own yokes and burdens, that is why life is so heavy! He tells us to cast our cares on Him, but we often just vent them on social media and get the 100 likes from people who are basically going through the same thing we are. We openly thank God for things that He has not given to us, it was just something we wanted; then when we lose it, it looks like good news was fake news.
For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.
ALTERNATIVE FACTS
- Everyone can choose how they get to God. WRONG: Jesus is the Way the Truth and Life (John 14:6)
- We decide who we are, or who we should be. WRONG: God created us with a purpose (Jeremiah 1:5)
- We only have to answer to our own consciousness. WRONG: We will give an account to God for every word. (Matthew 12:36)
- Christianity is a religion designed to keep us in bondage. WRONG: Who the Son makes free is free indeed! (John 8:36)
- People don't believe the gospel anymore. WRONG: The enemy has blinded eyes, they just need the LIGHT. (2 Corinthians 4:4)
- There is no life after death. WRONG: God loved us enough to pay for eternal life. (John 3:16)
- I have done too much and it is too late for me. WRONG! Today if you hear His voice, He is standing at the door, knocking....(Revelation 3:20)
PHOTOSHOP VISIONS
When it comes to you and your life, the bible says "Without a vision, the people perish". What do you SEE yourself doing? What looks like God, and what looks photoshopped? Just because you can sing does not mean that you have to do what someone else has done. Your purpose does not need to look like what someone else imagines. The purest picture of your life comes from God, not society. Don't look at your natural gift and assume how it has to be used. Go to the God who made you, and get His original photo of your life and follow that! You are here to meet a need, a need that you were designed for, not to be a carbon copy of what has already been done. As an author, I get a lot of flak because I am not trying to be on the "Best Sellers List" I view my books as resources to what I teach. To me it is a continued counseling session that benefits more that just the people sitting in front of me. So I am not intimidated by everyone who has found a way to be 'called' the best seller, I want to help people, the people I am called to help. It takes the pressure off performing to fit a mold that God didn't give me. My big thing this year is "Staying in my lane, but thinking outside the box". Follow God. The path He has for you may not look like everyone else's but it is yours! Don't give in to "Vision Shaming."
TOO BAD TO BE TRUE?
John 8:44
You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
As nice as you are, you have an enemy. We all do. The devil wants to stop us from being productive, from being a light in this earth. Don't allow him to deceive you. Sometimes he gives you partial truth to bait you into taking the hook, because a full lie would make you suspicious. Much like he did in the garden of Eden. Eve got a partial truth, just enough to make it tempting to disobey God. Don't fall for it, his plan is to deceive you and get you off task.
God has given you the ministry of reconciliation, so you are called whether you feel like it or not! Anyone who tries to make you feel like you are worthless, or that God does not want or need you is lying. They are not the enemy, but at that moment, he is using them. In all of us there is a purpose and plan that this world needs. God has promised to bring that work to completion, but if we refuse to allow Him, we lose. Why lose when you are already proclaimed as more than a conqueror? You are His child and He loves you!
God's word is TRUE. If you hear anything that sounds 'too bad to be true'....check your facts with the word of God before believing the lie of the enemy. Read what God says about you in His word, live your life as a blessing to others and overcome the temptation to believe the FAKE NEWS.
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