Lockdown 513

Lockdown Day 513 - 21 August 2021

With this virus it seems we are permanently in fight or flight mode. We are in a war and the question is in whose army are you fighting and what are you fighting for.

The way I see it, the world's critical thinking is being hijacked by the infodemic which in turn is governed by fear. Fear of death, infirmity and the like. Lifestyle fears such as the fear of missing out or feeling left out are particularly rampant with the time spent on social media.

Thinking critically is a complex process, which means :

✨the facts are analysed to form a judgement.

✨it includes rational, skeptical and unbiased evaluation of factual evidence.

✨involves the self-correcting process of directing oneself in a disciplined and monitored thought process, taking care to adhere to a high standard of excellence and mindful use of those standards.

✨you have to discard your self-view and social status to commit to effective problem-solving.

If you are following a mantra you yourself have not logically concluded to do on the back of extensive research, you are already in self-betrayal mode.

Don't let a virus and infodemic hijack your critical thinking. Stop all the voices you're listening to and find your own. God's voice is the one your own will resonate with the most.

And His Word is clear:

"Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world. You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them. We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error."

I John 4:1‭-‬6

" Think over what I say, for the Master shall give you understanding into all this."

2 Timothy 2:7

God really has got this.