I often see people running to social media to express what their hearts can’t say face-to-face. Some with genuine release — seeking encouragement or accountability — but then there are those who throw indirect shade and call it expression. They post paragraphs that were meant for one person, but feed hundreds. They drop “cryptic messages” but hope the right eyes see it. It becomes cowards retaliating in the safest way they know how — loud online, silent in real conversation.
And the part that stings? Many even call themselves children of God.
Yet instead of taking it to the Father in prayer, laying it at His feet, asking for peace and guidance… they run to the crowd first. They seek validation instead of revelation.
The likes, the comments, the “I feel you girl”, the “say it louder!” becomes fuel — not healing.
Because social media doesn’t restore, it amplifies.
It doesn’t fix the wound, it exposes it.
It doesn’t bring peace, it provokes more hurt.
What if… instead of posting, we paused?
What if… instead of subtweeting, we prayed?
What if… instead of venting to the world, we spoke directly to God — and maybe even directly to the person involved?
Maturity is not silence soaked in bitterness — it’s choosing wisdom over reaction.
Growth is not pretending you’re unbothered online — it’s handling offense with grace and courage.
Not everything needs an audience.
Not every feeling needs a platform.
Sometimes the holiest response is the quiet one — whispered in prayer, not shouted in a story.
Healing often happens in private long before it becomes a testimony in public.
Let us be people who take our wounds to Jesus first.
Let us be believers who respond with grace, not gossip.
Let us choose conversation over subliminals, peace over pettiness, and prayer over performance.
Because a healed heart doesn’t need a status update to speak.
I call this "Coward's Retaliation"
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