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"Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you." 
(Romans 12:2 MSG version)
Recently we are facing the digital era which offers a lot of entertainments and information. We can create a social community or even ruin it. We can tighten the relationship or even break it. It really depends on us: Do we really have a deep consideration before take an action?

Nowadays, People are more likely to spend their time too much to scroll down their Instagram or post their thoughts on Facebook. They are so fervent to show off their belongings or recent photograph with eye-catching background (which is also known as Instagramable scenery). They are so quick to share their photo and sometimes without a deep thinking. Some people will be very busy to update their status on Facebook (or other social media). Sometimes their privacy or others are accidentally being exposed because they are too eager to tell to the world what they think without a profound consideration. Both Instagram and Facebook (or other social media) can be a very good media to share with others and bound a tight relationship or they can ruin a tight relationship in a second. This depends on us : do we have a deep consideration before share it?. Therefore To think deeply before act is the very important factor. Sadly this factor has gradually vanished among our society. People tend to superficially share their thoughts and judgment to others which can create a conflict. As a result, a social community will be no more, ruined by social media because the lack of deep consideration from us.



Bible warned us not to be well-adjusted to our culture that we fit into it without even thinking. It means we can not just easily follow what most people do without consider deeply the consequences of our action or word. If most people use social media to share or show off their negative thoughts, do we want to follow them to do same thing? Bible also clearly said that we must fix our attention on God. It means we must have a Christ-oriented mindset which makes us completely imitate Jesus Christ. This mindset also leads us to the spiritual maturity through the word of God. On the contrary, if we follow what most people do we will have the self-pleasure-oriented mindset which makes us follow our own pleasure. Bible said that our pleasure can not be satisfied. Once we fill our heart with a self-pleasure, it will ask for more pleasures. As a result our lives will be dragged close to the self-pleasure but far from God. The more we fill our heart with our self-pleasure, the further we are dragged away from God. Therefore, we must consider deeply the consequences before we do something. Does it please God or please ourselves?


In our daily life, we can start seeing around us to recognize our cultures. We are living among society, it means we are living by following a particular culture. Knowing the culture around us is very important to understand how we must react. If we are living in the modern city where most people are spending their time to scroll down their social media, so we must carefully and wisely use that social media. Use that wisely to build a community or tighten the relationship not to ruin or break it.

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