Got off MySpace

After a little over a year on MySpace, I decided to get off. I have been working on personal development, and found that MySpace was one of my time wasters. Not because I didn’t have nice friends on there, but because most of the time, I wouldn’t get messages. I would log in for nothing quite a bit, and it just doesn’t seem like a productive use of my time.

I have some very specific goals for my life, and I will be too busy to play with a website like that. Also in my notes to them as to why I canceled, I mentioned that I didn’t like seeing perverted ads all the time. I realize as a business person, that these types of ads must be what people want, but I’m going to use what little influence I have in the “free market” and not use a site that promotes that. Not only is that kind of advertising a dichotomy with my Christian values, I just plain don’t want to see it.

I’m going to be starting and registering for my Master’s degree courses soon, and I will need every ounce of time possible to devote to that. Also, I have some plans related to developing my business and creating a product, not to mention helping create a product for a non-profit entity.

Sometimes its important to get rid of the things in our life that bog us down. MySpace was one of those things. Here is some wisdom from the Bible:

Hebrews 12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

“Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.”

If we want to be obedient to the calling that God has given us, we need to put aside things that slow us down towards the fulfillment of that goal.

More to come on calling later….