Miss Eva

Writer. Artist. Christian.

[Miss Eva @EvaIn280]

I'm glad that married Christians with kids celebrate their joy in family life and share that it's the best thing they've ever experienced. I want them to keep doing that. What I wish they would stop doing is declaring it the highest calling that anyone can have and that anyone who doesn't have that life will never be as happy as they are.

God doesn't give marriage and parenthood to everyone. Many Christians pray and seek and try to obtain it and never get it. So we need to work on our contentment and finding meaning and joy in the roles that God has ordained for us, which can be hard, when we wanted Him to assign us married life and parenthood. And then we get this message from our fellow Christians - that the very best we can do with our lives will never be as good as what they're doing with theirs.

Please don't do this. What you have is already obviously wonderful; all you need to do to honor God with it is honor your spouse/kids and celebrate them. You don't need to also tell us that you think your calling is higher than ours and that raising a family makes you more generous and giving than we are. It only tempts you with pride and us with envy, and it dishonors the God that we're all trying to serve.

[Miss Eva @EvaIn280]

Putting a toe back into the waters of X (been too anxious lately to read a lot of news), and here's Dr. Strachan reminding me that there are still things to chuckle about, including ourselves. 😆

[Owen Strachan @ostrachan]

Just remember: as evangelicals, whenever we're contemplating what to do in a given area, there is always the (vastly underrated) option to Not Be Super Weird About Stuff.

[Miss Eva @EvaIn280]

characters ate up screentime that should have gone to the compelling real-life figures. And I felt like I was watching it with a bag over my head on a high-turbulence flight - dim, muffled, shaky. I'll go back to watching old movies; today's cinema is pretty bleak.

[Miss Eva @EvaIn280]

Watched The Uprising tonight and am very salty about it. The Peasant Revolt is one of the most interesting stories in history, yet they somehow made it confusing and boring. Andrew Garfield is usually effortlessly compelling, but here, he was one-note. The dull fictional

[Miss Eva @EvaIn280]

@ostrachan As a single introvert, I have at times politely declined seat buddy invites because I actually really like sitting alone. People sometimes dream up a problem and then try to solve it without realizing it's not real.

[Miss Eva @EvaIn280]

@TGC_Au I'm single, and I never wished anyone's wife would come over and sit with me instead of her husband. I appreciate the thought of making newcomers and singles welcome, but trust me, introverts hate this kind of thing. Sitting alone is a blessing for a lot of people.

[Miss Eva @EvaIn280]

@ostrachan No shade on Dr. Strachan for alerting us to this. But a reminder to anyone who, like me, feels overwhelmed with despair by this, it might be time to log off X and take time to rebuild strength to endure this evil age - that what I'll do now. God bless all Christians.

[Miss Eva @EvaIn280]

I felt very overwhelmed and discouraged last night. Then I took X off my phone, and I'm only now checking it on my laptop this evening. Today was better, so I'm putting X back on ice. Christians, don't hesitate to step away if it's pulling you away from trusting Him.

[Lidiya Kravchuk Harvey @LidiyaHarvey]

Last night, feeling incredibly discouraged, I FaceTimed my mom around midnight.

She was watching the election results come in. But unlike me, she was smiling. Joyful, even.

My first question was, “What do we do now?”

Without hesitation, she responded:

“What do you mean? We keep doing what we’ve always been doing. We survived communism before. We will survive it together again.”

This morning, I woke up still feeling discouraged. But not dismayed. The sun was shining, and I found myself reflecting on what it really means that God works all things together for good.

I think, if we're honest with ourselves, most of us would prefer to believe we're living in the redemptive arc of human history. That things are inevitably moving toward greater freedom, greater truth, and greater goodness.

But what if we're not? What if the world our children inherit is less free than the one we inherited? Does that mean God has stopped working all things together for good?

Of course not. God's promises have never depended on the direction of human history.

I frequently tell young people navigating dating in the post-2020 world that they've been given an extraordinary opportunity to discern character. Those years revealed who possessed courage, who valued truth over acceptance, and who would abandon their convictions the moment they became a little costly.

We are witnessing another such moment.

We live in a time when people, organizations, and institutions openly celebrate socialism, embrace anti-American ideology, undermine the biblical family, and defend the murder of life.

And as discouraging as that is, these moments reveal who people actually are.

They expose the difference between conviction and convenience. Between biblical fidelity and cultural accommodation. Between those who profess Christ and those actually willing to bear the cost of following Him.

Perhaps we are not living in the redemptive arc of human history.

But we have the extraordinary privilege of living every single day in the redemptive power of Jesus Christ.

I don't know exactly what these election results mean for our country's future. But I do know that progressive ideology continues to make inroads into the evangelical bloc, which has historically been one of the strongest defenders of biblical values.

So then, today is a call for a response.

Raise your children in the instruction of the Lord. Stop funding educational institutions that undermine the very convictions you're trying to instill in them. Find a church that boldly and unapologetically proclaims biblical truth.

Teach your children history. Teach them Scripture. Teach them to recognize evil even when it disguises itself as compassion, progress, or justice.

Reject the lie that trusting God's sovereignty means surrendering our responsibility. Christian hope is not an excuse for Christian complacency.

We are not promised a comfortable life, a prosperous nation, or a culture that celebrates our convictions.

We are called to faithfulness.

And until Christ returns, we have work to do.

My mother knows something about this that many Americans have never had to learn. She lived under communism. She knows what it means to follow Christ when the surrounding culture is hostile to everything you believe.

And yet, last night, she was smiling.

Not because the election results gave her hope.

But because her hope was never in the election results to begin with.

So today, I am not dismayed.

“For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.” Romans 8:18

[Miss Eva @EvaIn280]

@ostrachan Thank you for always reminding me of where to focus when things feel out of control.

[Lambert™ @ohlambert_]

Sometimes you just gotta let God cook.

Things might be bad right now. They might be the worst they’ve ever been.

And when things get that bad, it’s tempting to start forcing outcomes because sitting still feels like losing control.

But if God is working all things together for the good of those who love Him and are called according to His purpose, maybe you don’t need to have everything figured out.

Do what you can. Leave the rest to Him.

Let Him cook.

[Miss Eva @EvaIn280]

@TheMuppetPastor Thank you. 2001, then 2008, then 2020 felt like the end, but they weren't. God is working on my faith, too. We're in one of the "all is lost" plot turns of a long story that will end in "happily ever after."

[Miss Eva @EvaIn280]

@PrishaMosley https://t.co/F6lF3JAXsD

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Election Results Are In: Christ Still On His Throne https://t.co/dxRot2FBNe

[Michael A Youssef @MichaelAYoussef]

We have prayed. We have warned. We have acted.

Now we entrust the outcome to our sovereign God. His ways are higher than ours ways.

No election changes our calling to be salt and light. Our hope is in Christ alone.

Church, let us be found faithful.

[Miss Eva @EvaIn280]

@getabass @godlywomanhood Im 6'1" and 48 years old. I would look like I was cosplaying as a kindergartener in this dress.

[Miss Eva @EvaIn280]

@itsSamSlade I tried that twice - first year was fine, second, they knocked the bowl on the ground and ran off - left the bowl and a few scattered pieces of candy. Ridiculous to steal from someone trying to give a gift.

[Miss Eva @EvaIn280]

@Nerdrotics Oooh, that's the one where they trap the devil in a closet. That one is absolutely chilling!

[Miss Eva @EvaIn280]

@legaltweetz God bless you, miss.

[Miss Eva @EvaIn280]

@Natism

[Miss Eva @EvaIn280]

@TheReal_BCM I was a timid kid who needed to be nudged along by my parents along the way. Looking back, I appreciate their efforts to help me grow in independence. She's safe; let her grow through this experience.

[Miss Eva @EvaIn280]

@uppityhobbit I was surprised by how much i loved 2020 Emma, though mostly for Harriet.