That's Pinteresting...

Hey!

So, this week I quit Pinterest and here's why. 

This isn't a condemning post at all, it isn't a rant about 'today's society', it isn't about trying to make you feel bad if you use the site; it's about me just wanting to explain what God is teaching me about and how this involved the website. 

Basically, a man in my church read aloud Psalm 23: The Lord is my Shepherd. He spoke only about the first line. He was saying how he had known this Psalm practically his entire life, but he had gained new revelation from just those first 11 words...

"The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not be in want."

Especially those last 6 words. 'I shall not be in want.' It provoked me to read and reread this Psalm, and a beautiful one it is too. That first line just stuck in my heart. God was saying to me that if I truly believe Him to be my everything, like I sing or pray about, if I really believe it in the nitty-gritty of everyday life, where things are messy and complicated, I actually would not be in want for anything.

God's been challenging me on it ever since, and I love it. 

What I found was that my 'browsing' of Pinterest could quite easily turn into wasted time, but most of all, it was harbouring a spirit of want in my heart. I would see something and pin it onto a board that I had neatly arranged, but with every pin what I was really doing was saying 'Oohh, I'd like that' or 'I want that' and then creating a board plastered with a variety of things, most of which whispered 'want.'

I do think the website can be utilized in a positive way though, especially for ideas of crafts or recipes or exercises and the like, however for me, I personally felt that God told me to quit the website. Having an account and spending time 'getting ideas' didn't really work for me, and this was a practical way of cutting out that spirit of want, just through obeying Him. 

So, in conclusion, if you feel you identify with what I'm saying then pray and see if it's a practical way that God can teach you things through too. If you don't feel convicted to leave it alone, then all I would like to say is that I encourage you to utilize it for ideas and inspiration and to actually do what you find (I hardly ever did any of the workouts I regularly pinned! :P) because I honestly found that it didn't take long whilst 'browsing,' to begin to feel disappointed or discouraged, unhappy or even in want of certain 'things' for myself or my life; and I believe that feeding those kinds of feelings or thought patterns can be quite dangerous.

Now,  please bask in this wondrous scripture...

C.

The Lord, the Psalmist’s Shepherd.

A Psalm of David.

23 The Lord is my shepherd,
I [a]shall not want.
2 He makes me lie down in green pastures;
He leads me beside [b]quiet waters.
3 He restores my soul;
He guides me in the [c]paths of righteousness
For His name’s sake.

4 Even though I walk through the [d]valley of the shadow of death,
I fear no [e]evil, for You are with me;
Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies;
You [f]have anointed my head with oil;
My cup overflows.
6 [g]Surely goodness and lovingkindness will follow me all the days of my life,
And I will [h]dwell in the house of the Lord [i]forever.