This 'Facebook' thing is a bit confusing. Since signing up less than a week ago I've spent hours checking the site, only to see who has become friends with who, who has 'poked' who, and what photos have been added by people I know. But I have a confession - I can't work out what the whole purpose of the thing is - all I know is that it's a very public window into the private world of friends where I can see exactly what time of day people are doing things at their computers. It seems like a nosey-parker's paradise. Have you noticed the very odd times that people make changes to their pages? Don't people ever sleep? The only good thing is that I am encouraged that my list of 'friends' grew very quickly - it's still not a huge number but at least it' nice to know I have some!
Over the weekend an odd thing happened, though. I received a 'friend' request from someone I don't know. What a dilemma! Is there an etiquette to these things? Should I blindly accept, knowing that this so called 'friend' will be invited into my world? I'm not sure that I want someone who I hardly know looking into my world. I could easily reject the request - but what will that do for the esteem of the person who wants to be my friend? In my work I travel all around the world and meet many people. It could be someone who has met me on one of my trips. They might think we already know each other as friends - they might be mortified to discover that our meeting left no impression on my life whatsoever!
It raises a thought - are our relationships as deep and meaningful as we think they might be? I've heard many people drop names into conversations to show how well connected they are - perhaps I've done it myself from time to time - but what level of relationship do we really have?
It had me wondering, is my relationship with Jesus as real as I think it is?
21-23"Knowing the correct password—saying 'Master, Master,' for instance— isn't going to get you anywhere with me. What is required is serious obedience—doing what my Father wills. I can see it now—at the Final Judgment thousands strutting up to me and saying, 'Master, we preached the Message, we bashed the demons, our God-sponsored projects had everyone talking.' And do you know what I am going to say? 'You missed the boat. All you did was use me to make yourselves important. You don't impress me one bit. You're out of here.' (Matthew 7:21 - from 'the Message')
21-23"Knowing the correct password—saying 'Master, Master,' for instance— isn't going to get you anywhere with me. What is required is serious obedience—doing what my Father wills. I can see it now—at the Final Judgment thousands strutting up to me and saying, 'Master, we preached the Message, we bashed the demons, our God-sponsored projects had everyone talking.' And do you know what I am going to say? 'You missed the boat. All you did was use me to make yourselves important. You don't impress me one bit. You're out of here.' (Matthew 7:21 - from 'the Message')
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This relationship thing is quite hard isn't it....with text, email and facebook "one" need never face to face talk to anyone again ! Funny how people find it easier to email something than actually talk to us about it...shame - just hope we don't loose the art of speaking/chatting/personal interaction from our fellowship ! Good to have you blogging though Cedric...could have commented on all your blogs this morning, but have work to do now :-)
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