I understand that. I deleted the SS app from my phone about two months ago. I look at Notes very seldomly now. My writing may grow more slowly in reach, but I am happier.
I mean, it's crushingly insane that we love our enemies and do good to those who persecute us, too. I don't disagree with your general observation, I'm certainly not shy with the mute button myself. But I suspect Jesus reads everyone's substack.
"How much of my life will be burned up in the fire of judgment day because I could not/would not say no to the monkey on my back screeching for just a few more minutes scroll hunting for something juicy and fun? "
One of the things we Christians do not think about very often is that we, like everyone else "must die once, and after that be judged by God." We come to think only that we have been forgiven and that after being forgiven all of our sins have been forgotten. But everything that we do after conversion will be judged, and most of it is dross, to be burned. Very little, if any, will be rewarded. Jesus told us to lay up treasures in heaven. Yet we strive every moment of our lives trying to lay up treasures here of earth, "where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal." "foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth,"
This is why I keep deleting Substack…and reinstalling.
I understand that. I deleted the SS app from my phone about two months ago. I look at Notes very seldomly now. My writing may grow more slowly in reach, but I am happier.
I mean, it's crushingly insane that we love our enemies and do good to those who persecute us, too. I don't disagree with your general observation, I'm certainly not shy with the mute button myself. But I suspect Jesus reads everyone's substack.
I am reading Digital Liturgies by Samuel D. James and highly recommend it to you based on your words written here. Technology is not neutral.
I will grab it - I am researching AI constantly, and so any further commentary to that effect would be great, thanks.
Yep.
"How much of my life will be burned up in the fire of judgment day because I could not/would not say no to the monkey on my back screeching for just a few more minutes scroll hunting for something juicy and fun? "
One of the things we Christians do not think about very often is that we, like everyone else "must die once, and after that be judged by God." We come to think only that we have been forgiven and that after being forgiven all of our sins have been forgotten. But everything that we do after conversion will be judged, and most of it is dross, to be burned. Very little, if any, will be rewarded. Jesus told us to lay up treasures in heaven. Yet we strive every moment of our lives trying to lay up treasures here of earth, "where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal." "foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth,"