The Kingdom of God is Not Like Tumblr.

Before I go any further with this, I just would like to put out the disclaimer that I have only witnessed the fandom side of Tumblr, because I am a fangirl. I know nothing about the hipster side or... well whatever else there is on Tumblr. Honestly, past fandoms it's just like a big deep abyss of scary to me. So, the rest of Tumblr could be completely different from this. Anyway. Back to the point.

The Kingdom of God is not like Tumblr. Which, just to clear things up, is a good thing (sorry Tumblr. I love you.) In the Kingdom of God, you are not judged for not reblogging pictures of David Karp. (creator of Tumblr, for those of you who don't know.) You do not need to have an awesome url, a cool title, and a pretty page to be accepted. You don't need to have hundreds of followers to be cool.

Okay, this probably makes no sense in the contexts of the Kingdom of God. But here's my point: when you become a Christian, you aren't required to do anything but love God and believe that Jesus is your Saviour. (oh my word. I just automatically spelled Savior the British way. What is my life.)

Ephesians 2:8 says "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God- not by works, so that no one can boast." I dislike quoting over-used verses, but this one is just good. Tumblr people accepts you when your blog is awesome. God accepts you even when your url sucks and your blog is still labeled "Untitled." (Okay, that's figurative, but you get the point.)

Okay, so I'm going to deviate from my title a bit. The Kingdom of God is a little bit like Tumblr. But again, this is good. When you follow the right people on Tumblr, you become a community. A community that all happen to obsess over Jamie Campbell Bower and defend him with your life when people say he will never be Jace. (A message to those people: I will hunt you down.) Or, you know, One Direction, or the Chaos Walking series, or whatever. Maybe even some of you multi-fandom bloggers like me. But, as weird as it sounds, the people I meet on Tumblr will stick up for people, even if they don't have an original thought of their own and just reblog other people's stuff. They truly care about people. Because I think there's all a little part of us that craves community and some people just don't have that where they live. Especially teenagers who are just stuck wherever they happen to live. Anyway, that's a tangent for another time.

So that's my rant for the day. Now I'll be off reblogging gifs of Harry Styles doing weird dances and Olan Rogers fangirling (*crouches in a dark corner hidden under 12 blankets staring at a computer screen.*)