My blog has been under construction. If you’ve checked this site recently you may have seen at least a couple different looks in the last couple of days. While I’ve been working on this there have been LOTS of different looks. This is all quite new to me and I’m learning as I go along. My teacher has been my twin sister, Dianne. She first introduced me to blogging and I’m taking baby steps with her help.
First I started with the basic template that blogspot offers. It was fine. I tried to add a new entry every few days. Then I heard about a place that offers free backgrounds for your blog…ahhh, that’s better! I began adding an entry almost every weekday. Last weekend Dianne told me about Scrapblog; a place where you can scrapbook on-line, then transfer your page onto your background. There are many steps, and changing a small item like a flower means going all the way back to the first step. This whole thing is a work in progress. I now occasionally even add an entry on Saturday. Tomorrow you may see something totally different, so brace yourself!
Growing as a Christian is much like blogging. Someone told us about the Lord and our story began. Our life is what people read; it is our testimony – our blog, if you will. They watch and they see a living object lesson before them. The story is varied from person to person, of course.
Some Christians find a new discovery every day. One day they find a special verse in Scripture. Another day they have had an answer to prayer. An opportunity to tell someone else about salvation comes another day. They look for someone to help them learn and they’re discipled.
There are some people’s blog (life) that doesn’t change much after salvation. Oh, it might have gotten a new template at the beginning, but then they slow down and even fall back into a routine. They’re satisfied that they’re on-line (saved) but eventually they don’t make steps in progress forward or learn anything new; it’s too much effort. People may try to teach them but they resist. Pretty soon there’s nothing new to see. People don’t even bother to check in with them to see if there’s progress (not that that’s good). After a couple years of the same entry sitting on the Christian’s page some unsaved people begin to question if there’s really any difference between themselves and this saved person. All the while there’s a whole world exploding around them – Bible studies, revival meetings, church services, small groups, Sunday school, promises in God’s Word to claim, and unsaved people waiting to hear the truth, but it sits intact; unexplored.
What does your blog look like? Are you growing and changing all the time? Every day you’re either growing closer to the Lord or you’re retreating. Keep things fresh. Don’t let yourself get into a rut. People want something interesting to read as they watch your life. Don’t quit! Blog on!
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