Wrestling with social media? Christian perspective on Instagram, slow growth, and the pressure to overshare.
There’s this wrestling we all have with social media. It’s this love-hate relationship with it. No doubt you’ve wanted to shut it all down and delete everything more than a few times.
Yet there’s something about it that makes us feel seen. When Instagram first came on the scene it was a brilliant way to share bits of our lives through photography.
Fast forward to today, and what started off as showing a still moment in time, has now turned into sharing sped up and spliced videos of how we live, clean, and discipline our kids—among a myriad of other things.
Why do we need strangers to approve of how we sweep our floors or parent our kids?
Last year, I started a new Instagram account and I’ve been very consistent showing up. But I wrestle with the painfully slow growth. I don’t mean numbers but trust.
There’s so much pressure to show more, be more, give more. If you want to stand out, you have to go bigger. You have to show more personal aspects of your life.
The world is not kind, and it will take your dignity before it ever gives anything back. Your life is precious. It’s not a commodity you need to put on display in order to find value in it.
We crave to be seen but the more we post, the lonelier we feel. I wonder why?
God has chosen you to offer something special to the world, but do it on His terms, not social media’s and certainly not the world’s.
What cost are we willing to pay for those views?
Maybe it’s time to ask: Who’s shaping the way I live? The Spirit, or the algorithm? Am I curating a feed or cultivating a life?
Social media can be a dynamic tool — but it can also be a powerful weapon.
xoxo,
Christin
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