In case you've been stuck under a rock for the past couple of months, I'm here to tell you that the world sucks. People are dying for unnecessary reasons. Nations are at constant war with one another. Even people inside of the same country can't seem to agree about literally anything. The world sucks.

But in case you thought this was new...it's not. The world has always, and will always suck because of the consequence of sin. Ever since that one act of disobedience took place, the Earth was doomed to be a place where truly horrific and terrible things happened. Sure, the issues we're facing are new ones. They didn't have guns that shot people to death in A.D. 64, but they sure as heck had lions that people professing the Christian faith were thrown to. The equality laws we're facing now may be new, but the world has always had groups of people that were thought of as the "outcasts" who were treated unfairly and with hatred.

The point is: none of this is new. We have and again, always will, live in a fallen world. Stop expecting that to change.

It seems that in the past couple of months everyone has begun to go crazy on just about every social media account possible. People turn the news on in the morning and tweet their reactions to every headline, and to some extent I get it. Social media, the internet, newspapers, blogs, whatever you choose, are great outlets to let your voice be heard, and to help yourself express the many emotions that a broken and messed up world can make you feel. (I mean look at what I'm doing right now with this article.)

But there's a part of me that feels and is starting to see more and more that having these outlets isn't helping as much as it is hurting us. Our reaction to a mass shooting has become to tweet about it, rather than pray about it.

The way we handle anger towards political figures is to send them 140 characters of hate rather than pray to an all powerful God that He gives them wisdom and guidance. We have begun to overestimate what our words and voices can do, and we're starting to underestimate what God's hand and power can do.

I'm in no way saying that we should just accept the devastating losses and sit back and watch as the world gets worse and worse, OR that talking about it on a social platform isn't the right answer sometimes. But I am challenging people to ask themselves: Do you complain as much as you pray? Do you trust God regardless of the circumstances the world is in?

Imagine what this country would be if we prayed for our president as much as we complain about him.

Imagine how much better our country would become if instead of getting into Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram fights about the problems we are going through we actually took time out each day to ask God to bring healing to the broken people of this world who commit these horrific crimes.

I know that prayer isn't going to eliminate all of our problems. That is impossible--because, as I mentioned earlier, it's a broken and messed up world as long as sin is around. But it can be fixed -- some.

Prayer is by far the most powerful thing we have been given as sons and daughters of a Most High God. We take it for granted every single day, and yet, I promise you this--it is a hundred times more powerful than your Twitter rants or blog posts. [Just ask Joshua from the Bible. Have your status updates ever caused the sun to literally stand still until you were finished defeating your enemies?]

I've also learned that even if prayer doesn't always change the situation, it will always change how you view a situation. So while the world may stay crumbling, your faith in God will stay unwavering.

I know it isn't an easy thing. I know that our first reactions to a problem are to let our voices be heard and see what everyone else thinks. In a way it's comforting. It's therapeutic. But it can be damaging and useless if it's the only thing we're doing.

If we are relying on 350 followers to confirm or challenge what we think and are forgetting about the only one we were called to follow to get us through these times than we will always be broken--not as a world, but as people inside of this world.

The world may be broken, but God isn't. Don't forget to seek guidance from the only one who can actually save us from ourselves.

Psalm 107: 28-30 "Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and He delivered them from their distress. He made the storm be still, and the waves of the sea were hushed. Then they were glad that the waters were quiet, and He brought them to their desired haven."