It was about a week ago that I realized that I hadn’t been updating my blog. It can be a rather difficult thing to do if you’re anyone like me who never really stops thinking. So to counter my lack of blogging I decided to write a blog entry about my lack of blog entries. Ingenious, I know. But it got me thinking (surprise surprise) on why it’s so hard to keep this blog updated. There are many personal reasons, like the fact that I think all the time and there’s so much rolling around in my head that I can’t pick something and write about it and even if I did it could very well fill a book. Another reason is that it’s hard for me to not rant as you may have picked up from the previous sentence. Still I don’t think these hit the root of the problem.
The other day I mentioned my lack of blogging to someone and they responded with “well when you’re on the field you’ll have more to write about.” This is something I’ve even said. However, the more I think about it the more I see it for what it is; a mistake.
One question that has been on my mind and possibly on others minds is that of calling. What am I called to? How do I discern the call? Have you ever struggled with those questions? I’ve been struggling with those questions for quite a while now.
As I continue to grow in my relationship with God and my understanding of His grace, which never ceases to amaze and comfort me, the question becomes less of a struggle. I think we all at times fall back into the idea that we need to earn something; that we always need to be working ourselves to the bone so that Jesus will love us more. So we end up getting caught in this mentality that says I need to do this, or I need to be there, I need to fulfill my calling somewhere else, I’ll have more to write about when I’m there.
If we’re operating on this mentality then we need to clean our glasses and get a fuller view of grace. Grace lets us rest in the fact that Christ accomplished EVERYTHING and there is absolutely NOTHING we can do to be loved more by God. So what is our calling then?
For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in
order that He might be the firstborn among many brothers. -Romans 8:29
God’s ultimate goal is that we would be conformed to the image of his Son, Jesus Christ. Where can we go where we can’t work toward that goal? We all, myself especially, need to challenge ourselves to not be spiritually blind to how God is working to bring us to maturity. And now that I reflect, I can see how God has been working on me continuously through all of those “dry periods” where I had “nothing to write about.” This makes me all the more excited about the race, but also all the more excited about life in general, knowing that “he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Christ Jesus.”
So the place is here, and the time is now. God wants you to mirror his Son Jesus Christ and he wants you to start exactly where you are.
