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I know the things. I’ve preached the things. But still I’m struggling.

How and why am I sharing on social media? I want it to be more. I want it to have a greater purpose. Not just bragging about what I’m doing, or posting pretty pictures. Lord I need your help and creativity to see the mission and the purpose.

I’m so convicted. I know the traps that social media holds and it sucks me in. I seek to be known and loved. And I don’t use it as a mission field. But how could I flip the script?

I am known and loved by God.

This app is a mission field to love God and love others.

• Praying for people as I scroll

• Praying before I open the app

• Creating a mission statement for my posts

• Reading “Every Moment Holy: Before consuming media.”

I think about all the people who told me to post. “You can’t share enough. Even when you think it’s too much, please share more. I want to see it. I want to follow.”

When I was in India I had such a clear purpose. I wanted people to see what I was seeing, I wanted to share the gift. Friends and family who would never go to India. I wanted their eyes to be opened in the same way mine were. To experience and learn with me.

And now that I write it out, I know that should be my mission now as well. It’s still true, even when Europe feels more fluffy or indulgent than India.

I’ve been given a gift to see and experience these things. To see places and cultures. And travel anywhere can be worship and glorifying if we choose to see it that way. My mind is exploding with new thoughts about God and the world. Because I have been traveling and in a new place and out of my comfort zone. And I want my friends and family to experience that. I want to pray before I enter the mission field. Lord use my posts to be a gift to others.

“Open the eyes of my heart Lord, open the eyes of my heart, I want to see you.” And I want others to see you too!