“Beware of practicing your righteousness before men to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven. So when you give to the poor, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be honored by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full. But when you give to the poor, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving will be in secret; and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you."
In case you don't remember that, it's from Matthew 6. The New Testament. Jesus said those words.
I feel like if He were to express the same sentiment today, He might say something like:
“Beware of posting all of your righteousness on Facebook to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven. So when you give to the poor, do not tweet about it, post it to Instagram, Facebook, or Snapchat, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be honored by men, and receive lots of likes. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full. But when you give to the poor, do not let your left hand pull out your cell phone to take those selfies with the poor people you're 'blessing', so that your giving will be in secret; and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you."
The Bible tells us to fix our eyes on Jesus, and yet, we've become a church of selfie-fans, keeping our eyes fixed on ourselves, as we do our good deeds, adding our cutsie spiritual-sounding #hashtags and watching the likes add up so we can feel good about ourselves.
And it's not just missions and good deeds. Christians are obsessed with selfies to the point that even when they're not IN the post or photos they post, their comments direct the viewers back to them, all begging for "likes." One picture I saw posted was captioned, "Look at who I got to photograph the other day."
Look at the picture "I" took.
Look at "my" photograph.
Look at "meeee!!!"
It's out of control!!!
There is no "i" in team and there is no "me" in Jesus.
Maybe Christians should take the focus off themselves...and turn the life camera around on others?
