So here I am, finally getting around to more actively engage the use of the Electronic Age to further the gospel and going in I realize that no one can "hear" what it is I have to say!
I am so far behind now that I have decided to start a couple blogs and a website that the electronic world is now so deep that it is like the ocean's depths. Meaning if I were in water something like where the Titanic came to rest and were I to turn on a light, that light would never go very far before being swallowed up, let alone reach the surface.
So, as I undertake this effort of having my light seen, I hope that I have come prepared with the endurance and provisions to make it until I achieve what it is that I feel God has been calling me to do.
I will of course continue in prayer that I can be an effectual preacher of God's word. I will continue to put out that word week after week in my desire that somehow in some measure I will make a difference for the kingdom.
In doing so my hope is that the updates will in part be enough that the earthly powers that be such as Google will find me and decide that what I am writing is of some worth so that in listing me someone will come across what I have to say.
Then if people do find me, then hopefully they will pass this blog on, link to it, etc. and then eventually I will reach an audience consistently.
With all of my abilities of discernement, this appears to be God's will for me, but I have been wrong before. But these efforts at doing work for the kingdom, when they fail though frustrating, should never be considered a waste of time. For me they just make it more apparent that I have less time to work with and so the feeling of urgency mounts to meet my calling.
God calls us each to different things (1 Corinthians 12) and all to do the work of the gospel in the way that we have been called. If my calling is to teach, I have learned that it won't necessarily be easy. In other words, I can't just expect to make a difference for the kingdom just because I put some words in a blog once a week.
Oh, I won't kid you; I wish it were that easy, this shining of my light. I pray that I can make a diffence for my fellow man the way God has made a difference for me.
In 2 Samuel 22:29 we read, "You are my lamp, O LORD; the LORD turns my darkness into light."
I know that in this world a desperate people who have yet to hear the gospel live in a state of emptiness, one of total darkness and I so want to make a difference for those people, whether it is through direct contact or via making an impact on Christians so that they will make a diffence for them.
Have you ever spent a night or nights in quiet desperation for one reason or another? Maybe it was out of fear or anxiety for something happening in your life or in that of someone you loved.
The long hours of darkness drug by as you searched for some revelatory thought that would shine upon an answer to the dilemma but that light never came. The hours however slowly did pass and the light of dawn crept into your windows and with it came some return of optimism so that the situation could yet have some hope.
Those people that haven't come to know Christ lead those moments of despair day and night and that feeling of optimism sometimes never comes.
Most of us who know God take comfort in the scriptures such as Psalm 105 as we read verses like, "Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path." for we know as it says further in this same Psalm that even the simple can gain understanding from God's word.
To see that though our lives are like a mist, there is order, there is meaning and though our time here is short, there is life eternal and that is what makes life worth living!
When I think of this darkness and desperation and the light and hope of the gospel that I want the unsaved to have, I have been thinking lately of those miners in Chile that have been in the news lately trapped in the dark despair of that mine 2300 feet down.
I thank God that those 33 men have each other to help take turns lifting each other up as the crushing weight of the earth above them and the darkness of their travail blots out hope and overwhelms their psyche.
Many who are unsaved find themselves similarly living lives of crushing weight and overwhelming darkness.
If you think of those miners and you had the ability to ease their burden and perhaps even rescue them, would you not try unceasingly to do whatever it is that you could do for them? Why should the unsaved and their condition be of less importance to us?
Therefore, let us do what we can to help the unsaved see our light and become children of the light themselves. I will learn what I can do to get my blog noticed and you will link to this blog or follow it and encourage me.
You will not pass up the opportunity to share with your coworker and I will spend more time in God's word listening to Him in an attempt to better be able to share what it is I think He wants me to share.
One day we will live together where God is our light and I will see you there!
Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 Biblica. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.
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