For me, social media has become a platform for sharing the gospel, business advertising, and promoting many things. I share something almost every day for different reasons. I often scroll through my page and look at the content I have posted. I realize that I don’t post anything “bad” or “rough” that I am going through. For one, I don’t believe social media is the place for that. Most of the time, when we go through a difficult time, it involves more than just us. It is not only our business to share but someone else as well.

Scrolling through my page caused me to think, especially over this past year and mainly this week. I have shared some significant victories in my life on social media. As a result, many have congratulated or complimented me. Which causes me to either soak up the praise or fall to my knees and thank God for all he has done. I don’t always get it right.

There is a fine line between pride and humility. Even when we are doing our best to be humble, we can be prideful. I have come to realize that we can never achieve humility in our poor state as a human. We need the Holy Spirit and a sincere desire to give God all, not a portion, but all the glory.

I never want to deceive anyone who may look at my page or my life and think I have it all together. For every great victory in my life, there has been a testing of my faith. Many of those tests I have failed. However, the testing of my faith is what keeps me seeking to be humble and growing. I may not post my struggles, but I have many like so many others. Yet, I give God the glory for my difficulties. He uses the challenges in my life, at times more than the victories, to grow me.

I write this to say from recent experiences of being in a struggle, a testing of the faith, take heart a victory is on the way.

“Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.”
James 1:12 NIV