God First. Blog Later.

I wonder what would happen if we spent as much time with God as we do our blog? Consider the amount of time you take to fix up and design your blog, then think about the time you take to read the Bible and "fix up" your relationship with God. Do you spend more time with your blog than with God? I have to tell you, I catch myself being guilty of doing this. Blogger can be an excellent tool but it also can be a bad one if it makes us obsess over it instead of taking time to be in the Word of God and in prayer with our Savior. What would it be like if we obsessed over Christ like we sometimes do with our blog? We would be more concerned about the lost than we would be about the number of blog followers we have, we would take time studying the Bible instead of scrutinizing the appearance of our writing, and we would care more about how our heart looks than how well our sidebar looks. Before you all begin thinking that I want everyone to delete their blog and go running off to a convent (that wouldn't work, I'm not Catholic) let me explain something. I feel that your blog can help further the Gospel of Christ, just make sure you can do that and spend adequate time with Jesus instead of spending all your time on Blogger. This post is a challenge to me more than I'm writing it as a challenge to you, praise the Lord if you've never struggled with delegating your time evenly between two things. Spend time with God and later you will have time for everything else.

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 15:58