Well, dear readers, it is a new month. I got 14 posts in during May. Not bad. I realize that my blog posts go hand in hand with my Scripture reading. Lately, I confess I've been slipping in my daily Bible time. Seriously, if I'm going to step out here like this and put my warfare in writing, I have to be founded on the Rock.
I am constantly confronted by my inadequacy. I am no Mark Driscoll or Francis Chan, or any other pastor of a mega church who has a podcast and a few books to his credit. I would like to be! I have deep respect for these men. David Platt, John Piper, Tim Keller, et al. They've done the work. They've searched the Scripture. I love to hear Ravi Zacharias debate. I cannot believe how foolish I am.
I look at the Psalmists and they only had like the first 5 books of the Law to go off of. So did Joshua and Nehemiah when they read the entire Law aloud after their victories. They brought everything back in and rooted it in God and His precepts.
Satan looks at me and laughs because he knows all he needs to do is ask me about deep theological issues. As long as he can get me discussing ancillary issues that I know nothing about, he can keep me effectively sidelined. What he fails to remember is that even though I am not a genius, I am a smart kid. I did well in school and even attended the Governors Honors Program (that was a total God thing because my friends, like Bender, will tell you that I was in over my head the first day or two of GHP LoL. I still made a great slideshow though!) I am an intelligent person. Intelligence doesn't matter when you mention God though. The world finds God foolish. All of the credentials in the world and "God" is enough to make you dumb, or at least not worthy of serious consideration. I daily question my beliefs, and the amazing thing is God comes through and teaches me new things every day. It's all about Scripture because Scripture breathes God anew every single day. All of my beliefs are based on it. If it proves to be wrong, well I'll deal with that if it comes, but for now it's all I need. He is all I need.
So, I hope to share with you what God is doing in my life, one step at a time. This is just fair warning though, I will be gone most of this month. I'm flying out next Wednesday to visit my sister and brother-in-law in Montana! After Montana, I'll spend 2 weeks at Camp Icthus with some old friends and new. I hope to have a lot to write about after these events, and as always give all glory to God.
For the Kingdom,
Stuart
Okay, I counter-quoted on my post to test if that works better. Let me know what you think.
ReplyDeleteAlso, you can view new blog posts in the Google Reader, although I haven't figured out a way to show that in the normal Gmail window.
[Okay, we'll stick with this then. All that got me was email in MY inbox. ^_^]
ReplyDeleteYou say, '[Jesus] can't be truthful about some things and totally lying about the others. Either He's true or He's false.' Simple follow-up: Why?