I suggest that this is because of our fear of ISOLATION & ABANDONMENT and some of us even have very valid reasons what these are fears. This fear causes us to fight solitude, become co-dependent, and sometimes very needy of PEOPLE! In 2013, it's easy to have access to people: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Path, Vine... the list goes on and on! This easy access puts us in a position where we don't HAVE to be alone if we don't want to be... these social networking sites have extreme potential to go from being good for NETWORKING to being badly DISTRACTING!!!
It seems to me that the less clothes we have on, the sexier we look, the more illegal behavior we expose, the more popular we become and the more 'likes' & 'friends' we have. So then we become people that we never were just so that we can impress the people that we never could!!! When we become different people we run the risk of forgetting our calling, forgetting our purpose and leaving our destiny when we leave our identity!!!
We can get so focused on making sure that we don't miss what's going on with our 'friends' that we miss what's going on with our Father!!!
Mark 1:35 says, "Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed." Perhaps we should follow His example more often. Jesus knew how to do things right!!!
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