The Guiding Voice
Popularity Contests Are Not Truth Contests
Anchor Scripture
Luke 6:26 (MSG)
There’s trouble ahead when you live only for the approval of others, saying what flatters them, doing what indulges them. Popularity contests are not truth contests—look how many scoundrel preachers were approved by your ancestors! Your task is to be true, not popular
We are not all called by God to be popular, but we are called to be true. Whether you are popular or not, just try to be true. We live in a very crazy world, a world of social media. A world where you only make sense or are known by how many viewers you have on your posts and how many followers you have.
And if you are a man or woman of God and you don’t have any views on your video, you are quick to judge yourself or think that God never called you because you see people with a lot of followers and views.
Can I tell you what God will judge you for? He will judge you for not standing for him, he will judge you for not going out for him, he will judge you for not speaking for him, he will judge you for not spending for him, and he will judge you for not being true to him and not for how much popularity you gained in the world.
He is the one controlling the world. He puts one up and puts another down. Let him be the one to determine if you will be popular or not, but you just be true to him and save yourself the heartache.
Selah.
Prayer
Loving Father, I thank you for revealing to me the way out of competition, and I thank you for the spirit of freedom within me to work without envy or jealousy in my heart. Amen.
Wisdom Capsule
"The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, so no more drinking from death-tainted wells!"
Proverbs 13:14 (MSG)
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