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What the serpent offered was knowledge that would cause the humans not to reflect God, but to rival him. He offered them a kind of knowing that was not meant to be known by limited creatures, but only by God himself. They were not built for it. It would certainly crush them. Yet, the draw to surpass their God-given limits overcame the desire to bear his image as they were made to do. And the rest, as they say, is history. There’s a way to use social media that reflects God. And there’s a way to use it that rivals him.
Time-wasting, or a desire to lose our sense of the passage of time, is evidence that we want to be like God in an unhealthy way. We subconsciously covet his eternality. We tell ourselves that there’s plenty of time and we can spend it without thought.
At its best, social media can help us form connections and stay connected to others. But at its worst, it can whisper the lie that we can be like God, not bound to one place at one time. When we long for omnipresence, we lose our ability to be fully present where God has placed us.
If you’ve ever sat in a room full of people who have forgone conversation with one another to stare at their phones, you can relate to the words of the prophet Isaiah: “Such a person feeds on ashes; a deluded heart misleads him; he cannot save himself, or say, ‘Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?’” (Isa. 44:20, NIV). Only God can be fully present everywhere.
