Do you know what I deeply dislike? Nay. Dislike is too puny of a word, deep disdain is far more fitting. Do you know what I deeply disdain? BLOGS. Blogs. BLOGGING. The word in itself - B. L. O. G. - I find completely distasteful. Words are meant to be gifts, music to the melancholy soul, medicine to the sick spirit. Or. Words can be harsh, damaging. Or. Words can be useless, a waste of sound waves, crowding our atmosphere with imbecilic chatter. And BLOG rises to the crest of this unfortunate list and while the word is wantonly wasteful, the matter is of far greater concern then those ill-fated four letters placed so haphazardly and carelessly about. The most fearful matter of this awful word is that it serves as a vehicle, a delivery mechanism to offer up a whole host of awful words at such deafening speeds that we are rendered awfully dumb and deaf if we are not careful, very careful. Yes, this blogger, deeply dislikes blogs, you might want to prayerfully consider your own relationship with blogs.
Let me show you something of the ugly truth of blogs -
I could triple, quadruple my readership in a matter of a few seconds. First, I would begin with a lame, yet catchy phrase - "Large Families on Small Budgets!" or maybe, "Crockpot Recipes That Will Shrink Your Waist but Will Not Scrimp on Taste!" Thirty seconds of work and my readers just started liking me and reposted my lame blog all over social media. Now, I begin to post daily, almost constantly, about EVERYTHING that happens to me and my numbers are climbing fast. However, if I really want to land this plane - I will write heart breaking stories of my prior orphans, post pictures of familial bliss in a multi-racial family, tell heart warming stories of our disabled darlings and top it all off with comical tales of adoptive family life. In truth, I could write a daily blog - "The Things Ethiopians Say!" and you would likely read it and repost it (far more often then you do my true blog).
And this is everything that I deeply disdain about BLOGS.
They are entirely too much of this world. And we already have far too much of this world in our space, in our homes, in our relationships, in our time, our precious time. This world, and its mundane mere mortals, crowding out the other world, the true world. And we live crushed lives under the weight of the mundane. For nothing of this world can save a sinner or set a captive free. You will find no eternal answers in a crockpot or rest for you soul in funny, familial antecdotes.
So, I won't write it, I can't post it.
Our time is limited, it is precious. I do not want to be found guilty of wasting it. I want to be deemed worthy to redeem it.
"See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because these days are evil." (Ephesians 5:15-16)
Are days are numbered and each is a gift. Days spent in dark times are gift to Christ follower for dark days dawn forth the opportunity to dispel darkness and offer in Light.
Because the days are evil ~ redeem the time. Make right that what was set wrong and time finds redemption. Can we alter the past? Certainly! Through restoration of the future! You have walked darkly in your past? Do not waste any opportunity to redeem your time this day.
Redeeming the time. Christ has infused us with this terribly awesome power! As Light bearers we can offer up restoration to time, redemption to our days.
So walk circumspectly, these days are surely dark.
And yet, even in the midst of this present darkness, we hold the Answer, the Mystery of the ages, the Wonder of our universe, we hold it in our hearts and how deplorably foolish and cruel of us that we bury it under useless cares of this passing world. Oh, the hours we waste, planning that which is NOT ours to plan, complaining of mere fleeting trivialities, eating and drinking that which falls so quickly away but not tasting and seeing That which is so Good and so Eternal.
Our time is a gift, we have a finite, precious few moments to share the Gift with a dark and dying world and I for one, do not intend to waste those gifted moments reading what some other mere mortal had for breakfast.
Water. Tea. Prunes. Apple. Tea. Water. Luna Bar.
Do you feel all the wiser for having read my silly breakfast menu? Certainly not! Are you encouraged to run your race in faith? Absolutely not!
Redeem you time! Walk circumspectly! And guard your sacred moments jealously!
Let me show you something of the ugly truth of blogs -
I could triple, quadruple my readership in a matter of a few seconds. First, I would begin with a lame, yet catchy phrase - "Large Families on Small Budgets!" or maybe, "Crockpot Recipes That Will Shrink Your Waist but Will Not Scrimp on Taste!" Thirty seconds of work and my readers just started liking me and reposted my lame blog all over social media. Now, I begin to post daily, almost constantly, about EVERYTHING that happens to me and my numbers are climbing fast. However, if I really want to land this plane - I will write heart breaking stories of my prior orphans, post pictures of familial bliss in a multi-racial family, tell heart warming stories of our disabled darlings and top it all off with comical tales of adoptive family life. In truth, I could write a daily blog - "The Things Ethiopians Say!" and you would likely read it and repost it (far more often then you do my true blog).
And this is everything that I deeply disdain about BLOGS.
They are entirely too much of this world. And we already have far too much of this world in our space, in our homes, in our relationships, in our time, our precious time. This world, and its mundane mere mortals, crowding out the other world, the true world. And we live crushed lives under the weight of the mundane. For nothing of this world can save a sinner or set a captive free. You will find no eternal answers in a crockpot or rest for you soul in funny, familial antecdotes.
So, I won't write it, I can't post it.
Our time is limited, it is precious. I do not want to be found guilty of wasting it. I want to be deemed worthy to redeem it.
"See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because these days are evil." (Ephesians 5:15-16)
Are days are numbered and each is a gift. Days spent in dark times are gift to Christ follower for dark days dawn forth the opportunity to dispel darkness and offer in Light.
Because the days are evil ~ redeem the time. Make right that what was set wrong and time finds redemption. Can we alter the past? Certainly! Through restoration of the future! You have walked darkly in your past? Do not waste any opportunity to redeem your time this day.
Redeeming the time. Christ has infused us with this terribly awesome power! As Light bearers we can offer up restoration to time, redemption to our days.
So walk circumspectly, these days are surely dark.
And yet, even in the midst of this present darkness, we hold the Answer, the Mystery of the ages, the Wonder of our universe, we hold it in our hearts and how deplorably foolish and cruel of us that we bury it under useless cares of this passing world. Oh, the hours we waste, planning that which is NOT ours to plan, complaining of mere fleeting trivialities, eating and drinking that which falls so quickly away but not tasting and seeing That which is so Good and so Eternal.
Our time is a gift, we have a finite, precious few moments to share the Gift with a dark and dying world and I for one, do not intend to waste those gifted moments reading what some other mere mortal had for breakfast.
Water. Tea. Prunes. Apple. Tea. Water. Luna Bar.
Do you feel all the wiser for having read my silly breakfast menu? Certainly not! Are you encouraged to run your race in faith? Absolutely not!
Redeem you time! Walk circumspectly! And guard your sacred moments jealously!
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