We are a Culture Consumed

As I was driving home this week, I started flipping through radio stations. I landed on a pop music station for about five seconds, and I was immediately overwhelmed. The lyrics coming from the radio were "the stars make love in the universe", "turn down for what", and "talk dirty to me". And my heart broke. We are a culture consumed by ourselves. We are consumed with sex. We are consumed with social media. And most of the time the three work together as we try to thrive in this world of instant gratification and materialism.

As I continued flipping stations, I heard a statistic that the average woman will spend one month of her life taking selfies and editing them to ensure perfection for social media. Now, I don't know how true that statistic is or where it came from, but I am sure that we are a culture consumed by ourselves and the image that we provide of ourselves on social media. We are consumed with different projects and causes on social media that we can "like" or create a hashtag for, but yet what purpose or whose purpose does that really serve? Do it really seek to serve the cause or does creating hashtags and liking pages and causes really just seek to serve ourselves by making us feel better that we have "done something".

Matthew West has a great song call "Do Something". The chorus says this:

"God, why don't You do something?"

He said, "I did, I created you"

If not us, then who
If not me and you
Right now, it's time for us to do something
If not now, then when
Will we see an end
To all this pain
It's not enough to do nothing
It's time for us to do something

Read more: Matthew West - Do Something Lyrics  

We need to stop hiding behind social media.We need to stop snap chatting pictures of silly faces and inanimate objects. We need to stop filtering every picture to make it perfect and spending countless amount of time creating a hashtags and instead start doing something. We need to get real with the Lord and we need to get real with people. We need to follow the teachings in Luke 10:27 to "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and love your neighbor as yourself."We need to spend time with the Lord each and everyday and get to know people around us for who they really are and not what they tweet or instagram.  I need to stop writing and actually get out from behind my computer to spend real time with the Father and those people He has placed in my life. 

My prayer is that we may be a culture consumed by the wrath of God, so fearful of what the Lord can do that we run wholeheartedly towards him begging for mercy for this broken world of ours. My prayer is that we may be so radically consumed by Jesus that we are on fire for Him so that our "selfies" become pictures of Him in this world rather than pictures of ourselves.