Facebook can feel like a community.

I would like to improve the social-media community, by removing the LIKE button. Permanently.

There are brilliant posts that deserve a LIKE.

I love to encourage others with my LIKE.

I love when others encourage me with their LIKE.

But sometimes, the LIKE can become your idol.

Did you know that you can buy LIKES? My kids told me….I had no idea!

As Christian writers, we don’t write to get likes.

We write because it is the right thing to do.

Our post remains as a small gorgeous diamond, hidden in the grass, watching for God to join it to a soul. Not to a LIKE.

And not to the whole world!

A seed (your post)and a soul ✨️ ❤️ will only bear fruit when God plants to begin with.

Jesus must be at that root.

The LIKE itself is not the Jesus root.

It is merely someone liking your post.

It could be a carnal LIKE, a tired LIKE, a jealous LIKE, a grumpy LIKE or the millionth and one LIKE, only because the first million LIKED first and you felt the need to follow the masses.

I think the LIKES that get 5 gold stars, are the LIKES that don’t shine much on earth at all. But will in heaven.

I will make a confession….many posts I liked on FB, I didn’t even want to LIKE. I was merely falling in the trap of social media and joining the crowds so I wouldn’t feel lonely and ignored.

As Christian writers, don’t allow the absence of LIKES, to mess with your head.

I sometimes get them, I sometimes don’t. Big deal! God isn’t fussed, why should I be?

I have had over 8000 visits at helenolenjin.life and on my published writings posts, I don’t have masses of readers visiting every week. However, readers still do come, and these are the ones that count.

Short videos are very popular today but who said writing needs to become extinct?

We keep writing, because we know this is God’s desire for us.

Please do not stop writing your posts for God.

The absence of LIKES or the fact that your post is not in exciting video TikTok format, does not mean you are not doing God’s will.

Think of when LIKES and TikTok never existed.

How freeing!

Write like these never existed!

Then enjoy the freedom of Christ.

This is how God’s work is meant to be.

I like what someone said, “Go cold turkey on the LIKES!”

Aye yes, and TikTok too!