The Blogger's Prayer
"May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer." (Psalm 19:14)
[Cue movie announcer's voice:] If you only attach one Bible verse to your computer monitor this year, attach this one.[/announcer]
To my knowledge, King David of Israel never Googled anything. He didn't have a Facebook account or a blog. He didn't write comments on someone's Myspace page. But under the inspiration of God, he wrote Psalm 19:14 for all those of us who do those things today. Seriously, this could be called the blogger's prayer.
The Web practically begs you and me to convert every random thought in our heads into online words. That's dangerous, and it should scare us way more than it does. Not just because we might say something to make ourselves look foolish -- but because we might write something unkind or deceptive or immoral and make our God look foolish.
Maybe even worse, the Web offers an avalanche of ideas and images for our hearts to "meditate" on. And even if we don't consciously think about them all, our "hearts" and minds are always processing those messages. We must develop the ability to delete the worthless thoughts and keep the valuable ones.
David sees that the only hope to pleasing God with our words and thoughts comes from our Rock and Redeemer.
Think: Do you have a different standard for what you will say and think about online than in the rest of your life? Is it more or less pleasing to God?
Pray: Write down this verse with your hand and pray it every day this week and/or month and/or year when you sit down at your computer of choice.
Do: Notice someone who reflects God's character online this week and thank him or her for that.
[Cue movie announcer's voice:] If you only attach one Bible verse to your computer monitor this year, attach this one.[/announcer]
To my knowledge, King David of Israel never Googled anything. He didn't have a Facebook account or a blog. He didn't write comments on someone's Myspace page. But under the inspiration of God, he wrote Psalm 19:14 for all those of us who do those things today. Seriously, this could be called the blogger's prayer.
The Web practically begs you and me to convert every random thought in our heads into online words. That's dangerous, and it should scare us way more than it does. Not just because we might say something to make ourselves look foolish -- but because we might write something unkind or deceptive or immoral and make our God look foolish.
Maybe even worse, the Web offers an avalanche of ideas and images for our hearts to "meditate" on. And even if we don't consciously think about them all, our "hearts" and minds are always processing those messages. We must develop the ability to delete the worthless thoughts and keep the valuable ones.
David sees that the only hope to pleasing God with our words and thoughts comes from our Rock and Redeemer.
Think: Do you have a different standard for what you will say and think about online than in the rest of your life? Is it more or less pleasing to God?
Pray: Write down this verse with your hand and pray it every day this week and/or month and/or year when you sit down at your computer of choice.
Do: Notice someone who reflects God's character online this week and thank him or her for that.
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