Solomon tells us that “a happy heart is good medicine and a cheerful mind works healing” (Proverbs 17:22, AMP ). God undoubtedly has a sense of humor; we need only look at some of the animals He created (it’s hard not to smile at the sight of a hippo, a monkey, or a puppy). Or think of some of the married couples you know: don’t you think God was smiling at the wedding as He looked ahead to the interaction of the wildly different personalities that will be living together?Posts Tagged ‘blogging’
the goodness of God
I’ve been worshipping and praying for a while this morning, delighting in the goodness and loving-kindness of God. If you’ve been checking the blog this week, you’ll see I haven’t posted since I went to the hotel last Thursday (a week ago!). Each day I planned to write; each day something happened and I ended up not writing. As I sat down this morning at the keyboard, I thought, “what did I choose to do each morning instead of writing?” Nothing of great importance, as far as I can tell.
I was feeling rather condemned — aside from any tacit commitment I have to my readers to post regularly, I have a commitment to myself and to God to write…
some thoughts on blogging as a Christian
Adrian Warnock lists some markers of blogging success (hits, visitors, etc.) but ends the list with something I’ve been pondering myself lately:
How much of an impact positively or negatively you have on your readers.
It is that last point that I feel we should most focus on as Christians. You see, we need to be loving towards our readers and leave them with a positive impression… Do we blog in such a way that we follow Lloyd-Jones’ guidelines to “blog the truth in love?”
He goes on to say, “We are blogging ultimately for an audience of One, who reads everything we say and will hold us accountable for every idle word.” And then, “For the Christian, one of the challenges of blogging is how to make sure that our motives are right.”
I’ve wrestled some with motives — successfully, so far (I hope). I’ll hear something at church or read something in a blog and think, “that’s wrong; I should blog about that and show why that’s totally stupid!” But then I think “what would that accomplish?” and “is that life-giving?” That causes me to stop and either figure out an appropriate (loving and life-giving) way to blog about the topic or choose a new topic.
Thanks, Adrian, for a gentle reminder of the true marker of our success.
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