TWITTERLAND

I just googled twitter language. I've been asking what does @ mean before your twitter name. Find out it means your handle (is that like our CB days!) or twitter name/user name.

How about the funny use of words that start with a # symbol called hashtag. What is a hashtag? The pound sign (#) in Twitter land is referred to as a hashtag. Use # in front of a topic or trend that you wish to create a topic for, or which people are discussing. An example of this can go like this. Going skydiving #noregretssummer2011. Twitter search results for “#noregretssummer2011 and be seen by those looking at the same topic. Useful? Depends.

Trending topics are exactly what they sound like: They are what the majority of people on Twitter are talking about at the moment. This is where you can find the latest things in the news whether good or bad.

Talking in code and creating cute sayings have become an art today. It is fun and sort of addictive. Who is going to create the new hashtag and will it go viral?


Who said these words? Why did he say them? Have you have just taken a statement and just asked "who said this, why did this person say this, what are they saying?"

I want to make up something. #bubbletalk
It's the bubble in comic strip where you read what someone is thinking or saying. I had a bubble thought as I read the bible about King David. King David picked by God to be King over Israel had a moment where he had an affair with Bathsheba. After that he begins to not have peace in life. A prophet Nathan comes to David and tells him a story about a man who did something just as David did and at the end of the story David says "who is this man he must die." Nathan says "that man is you."

If I were to write a comic strip with the bubbletalk between them would go on and David's says, “I have sinned against the LORD.” Nathan replied, “The LORD has taken away your sin. You are not going to die."

I have found in Twitterland that as each person tweets people are reading and listening. At least I think so.

In David's bubbletalk with Nathan he listened and responded with the remorse. He admitted to the affair. As I read in 2 Samuel 12 and on, the bubbletalk for David goes on. His remorse causes him to feel horrible and repent. But facing God with what he did took time and work. Restoring our relationship with God when we have done something wrong takes time and sometimes consequences. David's consequence was that Bathsheba became pregnant and the baby died.

Do you know a person who did something wrong, maybe even yourself, but deep down really have a good heart? David was one of those people yet God still loved him and chose his descendents to be Jesus bloodline. God never gives up on you or your friend or person who did wrong yet has a good heart. When we know someones heart we give them more chances. We should all be in awe of God's forgiving merciful heart.

I am filled today with this reality of God's character. How about you? I wish this lesson I am writing can fit in a tweet, but it can't. I can only pray that you see that God is real and wants a relationship with you unconditionally. WOW!

Comments on this TwitterLand would be appreciated. What do you think, is it hard for you to know God, what is good about it, what is bad about it? Do you like twitter? Do you use it, how often and why?
The same can be asked about God do you love Him, bubbletalk with Him, seek Him, how often?
Twitterland vs. bubbletalk with God. Interesting?