If you’re a Christian should you watch the news?
Should you fill yourself with such despair and so many lies that come forth from the media?
Is it helpful to know what is happening in the world?
Or should we just keep our eyes on Jesus and let Him guide us and what information we hear?
Just like any subject, each of us has a different place.
We are all one body but many parts.
For the body is not one member, but many.
If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing?
If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased Him.
And if they were all one member, where were the body?
But now are they many members, yet but one body.
And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet,
I have no need of you. 1 Corinthians 12:14-21
This particular passage was referring to the realization that all members in the body of Christ have their unique purpose and others should not make determinations on the importance of others in the body. This is especially true for the Jews and the Gentiles, but the lesson carries over into other areas.
For as the body is one, and hath many members,
and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles,
whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.1 Corinthians 12:12-13
This also is a good lesson in control. Both in controlling others or in letting others control us.
Do we control what other people do or should we?
If one says I don’t want to watch the news, shall someone else say, that is not what you should do?
Or if one watches the news and pays attention to world events or the political climate,
shall another tell that person that is not what they should be doing?
Isn’t that between the person and God?
That person may be a prayer warrior or he or she might be called into the mission field in the future. Only God knows and what we do should be in reverence and obedience to God.
This desire to control others happens a lot and in many different areas.
It also happens that many rate others on their own perceptions of what is appropriate or important in the body of Christ. That is a type of control and it does not please God when people try to control others.
Each of us has different talents and interests and God made people the way they are.
Their usefulness for the Kingdom is not up to any mortal to gauge.
How else would we know that Christians are being martyred in other parts of the world?
Someone has to share it, someone has to seek the information and be interested in world affairs.
This can go for anyone’s life and the energy they spend on this or that.
Pray for them if you are concerned, but to flippantly say, all politicians are bad
when the bible instructs us to pray for our leaders and those in authority over us.
There is no possible way a human can know that all politicians are bad.
What if the Lord has given a person a task and another person tries stop them,
telling them it is not what God wants them to do?
God is not going to be pleased with either person in that scenario,
not the person who had the task and not the person who is supposed to do the task.
Let each one serve the Lord in the way He has called them to do.
Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Ephesians 5:16
Redeem: to rescue from loss
Don’t waste time, we don’t have much of it and we can’t get it back once it’s gone.
The Question would have been better posed: To obey God or to Obey man, that is the question.