interlocutors

When we are describing the participants of a conversation, we call them interlocutors, but the sad thing about social media is that there are few discussions and many opinions. More like the interlopers with lots of words but no substance to their worth.

Words can bulldoze us with criticism or buoy us up with encouragement. They can knock us down or hold us up. Words are hammers that can nail an issue or pound it down deeper. What we need is a hand, not a hammer, to help us out. It’s a push down or forward or a winch to lift us up. Words pasted on the screen.

Social media is zooming in on other people’s lives, like living diary entries that brother has picked the lock on and now it’s all posted on the screen for full display of the world to see. It could be a murder in the suburbs, an avadado toast recipe or pictures of narcasistic beauty pageant queens who never got to wear the banner.

This “safe space” of brother and sisterhood and proper pronouns with fake backgrounds of mountain scenes and sunsets at dusk with plastic pasted on smiles. This technology was supposed to bring us all closer together in communication, bonding, connecting, but we are literally universes apart now. Zoom Zoom in - Zoom out! Find the perfect Emoji. The WWW is now the weird, wild and wonderfilled. Insanity at its best.

But there is a place where opinions do not matter; where people don’t get the final word and don’t win arguments with the God of the universe. There are countless stories of conversations that mattered and ones that are still to happen. It is infallible, indestructable, incurrate, and indesputable. It’s the Living Word, sharper than a two edged sword - the Bible

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account. Hebrews 4: 12-13