Monday, July 29, 2013

A Realization

I suppose this post is not so much something to teach, but share. Like anyone, I become easily dismayed, with this blog included. I suppose I know nothing I can say is new or revolutionary, so I wonder why bother.
But I am not called to wonder whether or not my posts are wonderful or new, but if it's truthful and possibly helpful. I may not be the first to say what I say, but I may be the first to say it that you know of. So in that way I have said something that you may have never heard before, despite others saying it, because you have not heard of them.
It may seem like a small consolation  but it is enough. To know one person could be affected by something I write is enough to do so. Besides, like I alluded to, I have an obligation to write of such things.
For if I preach the gospel, that gives me no ground for boasting. For necessity is laid upon me. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!
(1 Corinthians 9:16 ESV)