The bio says:
“Saved by grace. ✝️ Child of the King.”

The grid says:
“Please notice me. Please want me. Please tell me I’m enough.”

Welcome to the altar of attention.

When does my Instagram stop being self-expression and start becoming worship… of the wrong god?

In scripture, altars are places where people bring sacrifices to whatever they worship.

On Instagram, our sacrifices look different: we bring our time, our bodies, our image. We lay them down on the grid and hope the gods of affirmation respond with likes and comments.

Jesus warns:

“Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them.” (Matthew 6:1)

In 2025, that warning stretches way past public prayer. It touches every “look how blessed, hot, and put-together I am” post that’s really just our insecurity wearing a Bible verse as a costume.

When your bio says “All glory to God,” but your feed is meticulously crafted to draw glory to you, something got twisted on the altar.

Imagine someone who has never met Jesus stumbling onto your profile.

Your bio: “Follower of Christ. God first.”
Your feed: a constant stream of sexualized thirst traps, vacation photos, and flex shots crafted to make people want you, envy your life, or fixate on your accomplishments.

What story are they hearing?

Rewriting the altar

So what would it look like—for men and women—to reclaim Instagram from idolatry?

Not by deleting every fun photo.
Not by living in fear of being “too much.”

But by shifting who the altar is for.

Maybe it looks like:

• Posting things that reflect your whole self: your humor, your creativity, your friendships, your calling, your doubts and your faith—not just your sex appeal or your PR at the gym.

• Setting boundaries about what you share and why you share it. Asking, “Who am I hoping will see this, and what am I hoping it will give me?”

• Letting the verse in your bio show up in your comments section, in who you encourage, in what you refuse to objectify or normalize.

The fruit of the Spirit—“love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control” (Galatians 5:22–23)—can absolutely show up on your feed:

• in the way you refuse to body-shame yourself or others

• in the way you stop chasing attention at any cost

• in the way you treat followers as people, not numbers

Same app.
Same account.
Different center of gravity.

Holy verse, hot pics doesn’t have to be your forever combo.

You can be a man or woman who knows you’re loved, enjoys your body as God’s good gift, and refuses to turn yourself—or anyone else—into an idol just to keep the algorithm fed.

And that quiet, countercultural witness?
It might preach louder than any Bible verse in your bio ever could.