Post As If You’re An Influencer

In this social media age, everyone has different opinions about influencers. Some people love them, others can’t stand them, and then there are some who are striving to be like them. No matter where you fall on the spectrum, you need to understand that we are all influencers on some level or another. The question is, how are you stewarding your influence?

Recently the Lord told me to delete my personal instagram account (this is the platform that I primarily use) and start a new one. It’s not like I had a ton of followers, but enough where I felt like I could be a positive light on people’s timeline. With that said, when I started my new one I didn’t announce the change for my old followers to be informed and re-follow my new page. I just did it. I felt like whoever needed to find and follow me again will, and vice versa. As I posted my first post on my account, I felt like it was kind of dumb to even post with just roughly 30 followers at the time; but then I heard the Holy Spirit begin to minister to me at that moment.

He began to tell me despite the number of followers that I have or don’t have, I am influencing someone. He convinced me to post on my account with only a few dozen followers as if I had 10k followers. He reminded me of two different scriptures; the first one being “Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.” (Luke 16:10)

He was revealing to me that if He can trust me to influence and be a light to a very small audience in the areas that the Lord has graced me to be an influence, then He will eventually put me in position to influence more. That doesn’t necessarily mean having a huge social media following, because that is just one way to reach people. But it could mean through face-to-face interactions, speaking engagements, people reading my blogs, people buying the workbook I am in the process of creating, or any other way God creates an opportunity for lives to be impacted through me.

The second scripture He reminded me of was “If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them gets lost, what will he do? Won’t he leave the ninety-nine others in the wilderness and go to search for the one that is lost until he finds it?” (Luke 15:4)

He then began to reveal to me that He still desires for me to post on my account as if I’m an influencer with tens of thousands of followers because the one matters to Him. He showed me that if all my posts did was influence the one person who God was trying to reach then He is more than pleased. He showed me that it is worth more than having a ton of people follow, like and comment. He began to convict my heart to remember that my account isn’t mine. That when I made Jesus my Lord and decided to surrender my whole life to God, that included whatever He wanted to do with my instagram account. I began to think, what if for some reason, the person who God wants to reveal Himself to wouldn’t have followed me on my old account? What if there was something on my old page that turned them off from having an ear to hear? What if God granted me the opportunity to be a part of His marvelous plan by deleting my old account, and starting a new account that’s less self-centered, more intentional, and where I’m not influenced by other people’s opinions of me because there are only like 50 followers who chose to follow who I am now, not followers who knew and loved the old sinful me before I was a new creature in Christ; just so that one specific person who God loves so dearly would follow me, be influenced by my life, and become receptive to Jesus introducing Himself to them. What if?

So I say all of this to say, live your life like an influencer. Don’t be afraid to post as if you have tens of thousands of followers. Be ready for the Lord’s instructions so that you can use your influence, whether big or small, to promote our Lord and savior. Oftentimes God isn’t asking you to do something or post something because it only impacts you, but because He wants to use you to influence others; even if it’s just for the one.