OK, so now I have my second Twitter account after my first on went south (seems I broke some rule about following too many people too fast?).   I also have a Facebook page, a MySpace page, and a half dozen other social networking outlets, which is all really rather comical seeing how I am not really a social butterfly kind of person at all.  Yet something about these twenty-first century town squares have captured me.

At first, I tried to keep up with all of my ‘friends’, reading every post and responding till my fingers were numb from the carpal tunnel.  Now I have become content to just check up when time allows, and enjoy the three or four posts that I have time to look at as an opportunity to look into someone else’s life. But I think what fascinates me the most is the opportunity to connect with so many, some half a world in a way that it would have been impossible to interact with even just a few years ago.

The prophet Daniel writes that near the ‘time of the end’, ‘many will go back and forth, and knowledge will increase’ (Dan 12:4, NAS.  We are certainly seeing that happen in our generation, and these social networks are no exception.  With just a click of my mouse, I am traveling across the world, increasing my own knowledge as well as that of those who read my thoughts.  What an incredible gift from our King in these ‘last days’ to be able to speak the message he has given us to a world that has become quite small.

And so to paraphrase Paul, ‘Yet when I tweet the good news, I cannot boast, for I am compelled to tweet.  Woe to me if I do not tweet the Good News!’ (1 Corinthians 9:16).

Catch ya’ on the re-tweet!

To the King,

David