Archive for November, 2007
Ministry of writing
1“Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father in heaven.” — Matthew 6:1 (NKJV)
A few months ago I got a comment on one of my blog posts. The comment referenced this verse and made me stop and think. I was sharing in the post, one of my struggles and how I think God wanted me to handle it. My intentions for sharing that information were not to thump my chest and say “look at me! I’m great and wonderful!” But evidently someone wanted to remind me not to do my charitable deeds before men. So then I started thinking about writing. Writing can be a very public thing — especially when you’re blogging on the internet. You may think no one is reading it, but you’d be wrong.
My purpose for writing is one, to follow God’s will for my life and two, to share my God experiences with others so that they may not feel alone. When Jesus shared these words, He was speaking to priests — the religious people — in His day (of course we have religious people like this today — all around unfortunately). He knew their hearts and intentions. They did not care about God as much as they did their reputation — what others saw them do. Only Jesus knows my heart and knows why I write what I do, but I hope I never come across to anyone as trying to boast about accomplishments. Because I know it’s God working in those accomplishments — not me. If it were up to me, I’d crawl back in the bed and pull the covers over my head — not put myself, my embarrassment, my wrong choices out there on the internet for the world to find.
Prayer: Lord, please help me to focus on You and Your will for my life. Help me to remove my ego and let You use me and write through me. I never want to take credit for anything, because I am nothing without You. Everything I’ve ever accomplished in my life has been through Your grace. Be with every person reading this. Guide them in what they should do — their charitable deeds — and guide them in what to share with others and what to keep between You and them.
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