{"id":709,"date":"2012-07-20T00:24:02","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T05:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/?p=709"},"modified":"2016-11-03T00:24:57","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T05:24:57","slug":"danger-will-robinson-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/2012\/07\/20\/danger-will-robinson-danger\/","title":{"rendered":"Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

If you\u2019ve watched \u201cLost in Space\u201d you know this warning. Around our house we use them whenever one of us is about to say or do something that\u2019s going to either get us in trouble or be a problem. As some of you know, I\u2019ve been coming to terms with my blog and what God wants me to do with this gift of writing. I\u2019ve become overwhelmed with the whole culture of blogging I discovered exists..<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

Up until a few weeks ago I was blissfully unaware that any of it existed much less the influence that it has. When all of a sudden the floodgates were opened. My first awareness of this was definitely from the Lord. He opened my eyes to Allume through Tim Kimmel\u2019s\u00a0Family Matters<\/em>\u00a0blog. I don\u2019t remember who posted there, but Allume was mentioned along with the conference for bloggers. I was just ramping up to what I saw my blog becoming – a vehicle to share the speed-bumps in my life and how I handled them; hoping to get some knowledge and understanding along the way.<\/span>\u00a0 This conference was indeed confirmation to me from Him. Yet, I wandered down a side road of information after this point; and in doing so got sucked into the \u201cworld\u201d of blogging. Thus, the blogosphere took the wheel.<\/span>\u00a0 I realized what was happening the other day. My thinking came to a screeching halt and I hit reverse and got back to the road He\u2019s on.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 Hmm, this is beginning to sound like a re-telling of Cars- sorry for all the automotive descriptors! Moving right along\u2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

\u00a0I am so appreciative for this gift of writing that I am called to do in this season of my life.\u00a0 Nursing was just one season of my life. God has been training me, nurturing me, spurring me on through\u00a0all<\/em>\u00a0of the seasons of my life so far, and I have been listening- since I first put pencil to paper to write that first line- ages ago. Now He calls me to write to\/for others as well as for myself.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

I\u2019ve seen and experienced the touch that a spirit-filled post can bring. I know that God has used the words He has given for a purpose. He has granted me, and others, the art of crafting of those words to benefit someone who needs them. It is in telling our stories that we extend the human hand of Jesus. We touch that soul struggling with the same issues that we carry around.<\/span>\u00a0 A heart is comforted, assured, strengthened by the words given us to share by the King of Kings.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

Some of us blog to deliver a product, some blog to demonstrate knowledge, some blog to use it as a stepping stone to being published, some blog to share an experience to those going through similar experiences, some blog to expose a world of hurt to the healing air, some to scratch at old scars, some to rejoice in their children, and some to reveal deep sorrow in their lives.<\/span>\u00a0Whatever the pull has been to blog, there\u2019s a similarity in all of us: We would like to know that someone is out there reading our blog.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

For those of us who write\/blog because we are compelled by God to share this gift of words, there is real danger out there lurking.<\/span>\u00a0 The danger has a name:\u00a0SELF WORTH<\/strong>. There’s a tendency we have- we are all human after all- to hold up a measuring stick beside our contributions to the world. We can soon become consumed by those stats, hits, subscribers, followers, link-ups, guest postings, re-tweets, and whatever other media opportunities are available.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

We will be overwhelmed and sucked into the World of Blogging culture-unless we are armed and prepared for the attack. We only have one offensive weapon in our armory-\u00a0The Sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0{Ephesians 6:17}. There\u2019s only one weapon because we only need one.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

As we write, the commission we\u2019ve been charged with by our Lord to go to the world to make disciples, to baptize and to teach them to obey Him, becomes central to our writing. {Matthew 28:18-20}<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

In the age we live in, I think blogging is one tool He wants us to use to accomplish His Will (at least for me it is). We have the opportunity to touch the world with words on a page that instantly reach anywhere the internet is available. We are the Light of the World; the Salt of the Earth- that\u2019s what Jesus calls us. We are in this world to reflect Him to those around us and to flavor the world with the unique taste of His Love. When our sight, our focus, our vision, our gaze becomes distracted by the world\u2019s measurements we cease to be useful reflections of Him. Instead, we become stumbling blocks, caught up in self and sometimes entangling others.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

I\u2019ve been using the plural here, but I\u2019m really reminding myself: my worth is nothing to me or anyone else unless Jesus is the one measuring. God has been using several different authors to speak that reminder to me lately as I\u2019ve been trying things out on my blog and letting things distract me from what He wants me to share. Let me assure you-He is speaking very clearly and definitely to me.<\/span>\u00a0 Lately, Oswald Chambers has been a constant companion and vehicle of delivery of what God wants me to remember.<\/span>\u00a0 Here\u2019s what God placed in my line of sight yesterday (emphasis mine):<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n
\n

\u201cBelief in Jesus is a miracle produced\u00a0only<\/span>\u00a0by the efficacy of Redemption,\u00a0not<\/span>\u00a0by impressiveness of speech,\u00a0not<\/span>\u00a0by wooing and winning but by the sheer\u00a0unaided<\/span>\u00a0power of God.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

\u201cAnything that flatters\u00a0me<\/span>\u00a0in preaching of the Gospel will end in making me a traitor to Jesus; I\u00a0prevent<\/span>\u00a0the Creative Power of His Redemption from doing its work.\u201d- Oswald Chambers<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

I\u2019m not a preacher. But I do have a calling and a mission that I must see through. My mission is this only: That others see Jesus in me, in the words He has given and that I may give a good account of myself every day to Him. For that\u2019s really all that matters!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

PS: if this doesn\u2019t give you goosebumps I don\u2019t know what will! As I was editing and adding the underscores to the words in the OC quote for emphasis, I could not get all of them to conform to one thin narrow line.\u00a0 In my document the words ‘only’ and ‘prevent’ have a thicker heavy underscore that I could not fix to look like the others.<\/span>\u00a0 So- Message from the Holy Spirit- “This is important!” At least for me, it is.<\/span>\u00a0 Please tell me I\u2019m not the only one these \u201cmessages\u201d come to???!!!!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019ve watched \u201cLost in Space\u201d you know this warning. Around our house we use them whenever one of us is about to say or do something that\u2019s going to either get us in trouble or be a problem. As some of you know, I\u2019ve been coming to terms with my blog and what God … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordsfromthehomefront.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}