Facebook Deletion

While it has been hard for me, I am about to make the final Facebook decision and hit that delete button. I have posted a status telling my friends where to contact me if they so choose, and perhaps some of you are them, reading this blog now, given that I listed it as a place to contact me.

So why am I about to hit that "delete" button, instead of simply taking a break from Facebook or letting my account go inactive? Well, for one thing, I do not want to do things halfway. The Bible calls this "double-mindedness" and it is a bad thing. Secondly, once I take a step FORWARD in the Kingdom, I will NOT go back. Thirdly, I do not want the temptation.

So, why delete Facebook, though? Simple. A Word of Yahweh. Not a real specific word, like "Delete Facebook," but a more subtle Word. A forceful, powerful Word, but subtle nonetheless. For Yahweh speaks in thunder and lightning, but He also speaks in whispers.

And over the past few weeks, He has been whispering to me and I have begun to hate the things of babylon. The things that are not of Him. The impure things. And while my Facebook friends list is basically my biological family, friends of the family who have become family, or my Kingdom family, and thus not in itself impure, Facebook seems impure to me. It is obsession (which is not of Yahweh) and while a medium (like Facebook or the Internet or a book) is not impure in itself (it's what you do with it, usually), I feel, for me, that having Facebook is a little too much like the babylon world from which I desperately wish to distance myself.

But that is not the only point. The other point is this: I am joined to an ecclesia, and the head of that ecclesia is an Apostle. The Apostle who leads my ecclesia abhors Facebook. And as I submit to his authority given by Yahweh, I also submit to his abhorrence of Facebook. Now, he also likes golf, but I'm not sure I ever will. The point is, though, this is a Word, and so different. And while I've been told the Kingdom must come like a seed (be planted, tended, grow) and the Word must manifest after time, my seed has grown.

So, I have deleted Facebook and Twitter accounts I had. And it was HARD! And both of them made it even harder, making me type in password, explain leaving, and security codes. And OUCH! It hurt! But so did exercising and dieting, at first, and now I've lost 84 pounds and counting. So, once that "sorrowful soul" time ends, (and look! the feeling in the pit of my stomach of making some terrible mistake is already gone!), I know I will be blessed for this. For really, I need to disconnect in this way from the world. I cannot be IN but not OF the world if I am too much like the world. And now I have more time to spend with Yahweh!

Boy, I'm glad I deleted that tonight before I chickened out again!

And now, to spend some time with Yahweh, He who is much more than more!

<3
Cassie