Pinterest is a fascinating place.
I think, many people use Pinterest as a place to collect photos of things they like or find
interesting, cute, or funny. Some people use Pinterest to promote their website, blog, or business. Other people use Pinterest to share their own photos.
Pinterest can me much more than a digital photo album or junk box.
I suggest using Pinterest as a spiritual growth tool. How do you do that?
First, make a list of the areas of your spiritual life that you want to nourish. For example, prayer or prayer journaling, worship, Bible reading or study, Bible, faith, worship journaling, Christian or scripture quotations, devotions or devotional readings, and so on.
Next, create a board, or if you want multiple boards, on which to collect pins that will help you to grow in these areas.
Once you have your board or boards created, search Pinterest for pins related to the spiritual disciplines that you want to improve in and pin what you find to the appropriate board. Don’t forget to also follow other people’s boards by clicking the “follow” on any boards that you find especially useful. Finally, go back through your pins and review them one or two or a few at a time. Put into practice the hints and tips you find. Use the devotionals, journaling prompts, etc. to enhance your quiet time with God or to give that time a fresh feel.
Growing in our faith life isn’t an option for a healthy disciple of Jesus Christ. Growing is evidence that you are passionately invested in a God-honoring way of life. Jesus has even promised all who seek to grow spiritually a special blessing saying in Matthew 5:6, “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.”
Used well, Pinterest can aid and encourage vibrant spiritual growth. I encourage you to give it a try!
Related Bible Verses:
Colossians 1:9
“For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light.”
2 Peter 3:18
“But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever! Amen.”
Ephesians 4:15
“Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ.”
Psalms 1:1-3
“Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.”
2 Timothy 3:16
“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.”
2 Peter 1:5-8
“For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ."