This post is about Jesus, and if you don't share it you're going to hell.

Did the title get your attention? Did it scare you a little, or did you flippantly pass it by like the heathen you are? (I guess if you did that you wouldn't be reading this question anyway, so I'll assume you were terrified!)

Because this is a post about Jesus. 

Do you love Jesus?
Because if you do, you better prove it by sharing this blog post.

You do know what Jesus says about not forwarding these kinds of things on email, Facebook, or Twitter... right?

Ok. So this is something that's always kind of bugged me, and I wonder why I haven't really written about it before (or why Blimeycow hasn't made a video for it, for that matter. ;) But I think God might have told me "Go for it!" So here I am, writing this post when I meant to write a different one. :D

There are a lot of chain letters on the internet.

Some are just random: 

"Share this if you heart Justin Bieber!!!" 

Some are threatening: "If you don't share this post or send it to everyone you know, your toenails will grow into your mattress while you sleep, you'll never find love, and a demonic warthog will kill your family."  

And some make you feel guilty: "Matthew 10:33 says, '...Whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven.' Share this post if you're not ashamed!!!" 

 The first one is harmless (maybe a bit annoying, but harmless), but the second and third chain letters can get really annoying. The second one because they typically verge on ridiculous, and the third one because, well, they're a different kind of ridiculous.

I can't say I know the intentions of the people who make those kinds of pictures or stories that are passed around by religious guilt. Either they want to make something that gains popularity so bad that they feel the need to guilt people into sharing it, or they actually think it's their way of evangelizing or something. Whatever the reason, there is no logic in it. If somebody posts a picture of a sock, and I don't 'like'/share that picture, does that mean I've just denied the existence of socks? Um... no. I like socks. I wear them. People see me wear them. I just didn't happen to share the picture. :P

Living with the internet, there are a lot of interesting things going on that weren't issues before. People can play games about exercising without ever exercising their jiggly behinds. People can convince the world that they're a beautiful blonde twentysomething when they're really a middle aged bald guy with a foot fungus. And of course, people can proudly proclaim they're "not ashamed" of Jesus at a click of a button without having to commit to it in "real life."

How did people prove they loved Jesus before the internet? 

They used their lives. 

They followed His commands instead of following Him on Twitter. 

They shared God's word in love instead of threatening hell to people who won't share a picture.

If you don't want to deny Jesus, then don't actually deny Jesus. If people ask what you believe, tell them. If other people deny Jesus, don't agree with them. That's what Matthew 10:33 is referring to.

So the next time you get one in your email, or your news feed, or your Twitter page, or your blahblahblah... Don't let it make you feel guilty. Look at it as a challenge to prove that you love Jesus by obeying Him! I've shared stuff like that before, so I'll do it too. :D

My "Little Problem"...

I'm proud to say that I've never really been one to waste money. I'm pretty practical when it comes to money, and when I have to spend it, I really think it through before I actually buy things (with the occasional exception of buying a useless trinket or two...).

That said, my frivolity is expressed in a different way:

I am a time waster.

A shameful, shameful time waster.

I spend it like I have time to burn; And... most of the time I don't. I pretty much hand it away.

I hand it to the TV

Oh, yes. We have Netflix, so they have full seasons of "The Office," "Dr. Who," and "Myth Busters." Not to mention all those movies... movies upon movies, upon movies, upon movies... Needless to say, I'm hooked on Netflix.

I shell it out to the computer

This is probably the worst for me, because if Netflix fails, I could watch TV AND be on the computer, thanks to Youtube and Hulu. :P

Then there's always the infamous Facebook... don't even get me started.

Surprisingly, though, I don't spend humongous amounts of time on Facebook at once. Instead, I have the habit of popping on really quick, responding to whatever messages/notifications I may have, then popping off. Sounds good, right? The only flaw with this, is that now I get this compulsive urge to stop whatever I'm doing and "pop" onto Facebook "real quick..." So I "pop" several times throughout the day. Ugh.

...and the biggest waste of internet time is in the form of things like this:

Oh, hilarious, time-wasting internet memes... How I love you.

I wish I knew how to quit you. <3

...And when I'm not wasting time on screens, I'm off whittling away time staring thoughtfully into the abyss

Buuut, while I may look like this guy to concerned onlookers, the inside of my brain is filled with perplexing questions and BRILLIANT epiphanies... and sometimes stuff like this

So... I guess my only argument on this time-waster is that I'm at least using my brain...

So, while other people may struggle with breaking their piggy banks over a pair of Giorgio Armani sunglasses or a shiny pair of Jimmy Choos, I loaf on the couch and waste the one thing you can't really earn more of. Kinda sucks when you put it that way. :P

I'm trying to get better. I understand that God blessed us all with time on this earth, and it's better spent doing the things He wants us to. There are soooo many things I'd rather be doing with my time, other than knowing the latest meme jokes or what happened on the newest episode of "The Office," so I'm going to try and spend my time wisely.

Ironically though, it took me about an hour to write this.