Series: Youth for Jesus
Number: Vol. 8, No. 24
“Better to be a nobody and yet have a servant than pretend to be somebody and have no food.” (Prov 12:9NIV)
With the widespread use of the social media and Artificial Intelligence (AI), we are confronted like never before with pretence of very great proportions everywhere we turn today. What I mean is that many are now labouring hard to show themselves to the world as rich, influential, important and powerful, when they are really nothing. And why are they doing this? Desire for the praise of men!Unfortunately, many of God’s people are also being moved to do likewise.
So, if they cough, they too want the whole world to know. If they wear a new dress or a new hairstyle, they want someone somewhere to know about it. And if they don’t have a new dress or hairstyle to show off, they will let ‘AI’ do the trick for them and project about them whatever they want others to see.Now don’t get me wrong. I am not saying that you should not use the available social media platforms or ‘AI’ to project whatever you want people to see or know about you.
Rather, I am saying you should check your reasons for doing so and also be sure that what you are projecting about yourself is the truthYou want people to see you as good looking, calm and prosperous in life. That is fine. But are you actually good looking, collected and doing well in life at the moment? Or are you merely deceiving yourself?Perhaps what you want is for people to see that your business is doing well and can serve them well in some ways.
So, you are putting all kinds of images and videos of yourself and that business out there for people to see. And that is also fine. But is what you are projecting really the truth? Or are you merely fooling yourself and others?Then why do you want others to see whatever image of yourself you are projecting? Is it merely for the praise of men? Is it to update your people on certain truths they need to know about you and whatever you are up to, truths that they may not be able to learn through any other means? Or is it just to go along with the crowd?
Well, as Solomon tells us in our opening text, it is better to be a nobody and yet have people that you are well able to cater for than to pretend to be somebody and be living in hunger. In other words, instead of using your time lying and doing all kinds of silly things to gain attention, why don’t you give yourself to doing something meaningful that will make you a truly responsible person?
See, many of the so-called influenzers or socialites today are broke and unhappy. Yes, it may seem that they have the attention of the whole world. But they are broke, frustrated, unhappy and useless to themselves and others in their lives. That’s why they often end up killing themselves or their loved ones.
If you too, then, should walk in their steps, wasting your time, energy and whatever resources you have on projecting an image of yourself that does not exist, you will most likely end up like them. That is because you will have unconsciously driven true help away from yourself. So, frustration is bound to be the fruit that you will reap.Well, my point is that you need to stop wasting your time, energy and resources on projecting an image of yourself that does not exist.
Instead, give yourself to doing something legitimate with your hands, something through which God’s blessings can overwhelm your life. And when He is done with you, you won’t need to project anything about yourself or your work. That is because there will be many that will gladly do so for you for free, for the results will be speaking for themselves.
Cheers!
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