As many of you know I removed myself off of specific social media platforms roughly three months ago in response to those platforms censoring conservative and political voices.
It is still extremely unfair and controlling of these platforms to do such a thing. And not to mention very frightening and very similar to the control of other nations that claim communism works well for them.
I stepped off those platforms confident that I would not be returning to them and confident that the Lord was leading me to do so. I was moving in obedience, standing on a conviction that these platforms were and still are in the wrong. And I felt a huge relief once I did.
And I did not look back.
I was content with a small ministry as a result of this decision, knowing that pulling off of these larger platforms would diminish my reach tremendously. And I was willing to do whatever the Lord wanted me to do rather than seek out any ambitious goal or dream that was not of Him.
I have had three months of peace to be honest. And three months to focus on important things in my life like caring for my grandmother, my family and my own health, rather than being caught up in how people are responding to the tumultuous and confusing events in our nation.
And the Lord used those months to speak into me things I had not heard before. He led me off for good reason and I am thankful for the time He hid me. He allowed the vision of my ministry to continue to take shape, for my relationship with Him to deepen even more, and for the discerning of His voice to strengthen in me.
However, during our time away at the beach a couple of weekends back, the Lord started to speak to me to return to some of those platforms despite them being guilty of censoring and restraining conservative and religious voices.
He is now calling me out of this season of hiding, and once again, leading me to put my ministry on platforms that, though are not perfect and evil lurks in their leadership, still need His light to shine on them.
As I was grappling with my decision to return, the Lord helped me to remember that He sends us out to be a light in the darkness.
So even though I am not pleased with the silencing of voices, and I am very aware that my voice will be just a drop within a sea of chaos, there will still be an impact to be made and a heart to be encouraged that will make it all worth it.
Jesus came into our evil world, was not deterred by the perverse generation before Him, but chose to give His life for it in order to be THE LIGHT that overcame the darkness.
So in a nutshell, what I thought was a permanent move, was in fact, only for a season. It was right for me to step away, to point out the obvious wrongs of censorship, and to re-align myself more with the Lord. And it is right for me to respond to Him in the affirmative telling me to return back.