Do
better.
This
is something I posted on Facebook recently and I think it needs to be a blog.
The
Christian community needs to do better in this area of thought. I work
nights and on Saturday and Sunday it’s two 7pm-7am shifts. The nights
before and after are 11pm-7am. It’s not that I don’t want to attend church,
but this is my work schedule that barely pays the bills. I’m trying to
provide for me and my dog and this is what my job set up. I’ve had
friends even tell me to take days off to be around them. Ok but are you
going to pay my bills. I still watch First Baptist Church, Corpus Christi,
and Real Life online. There are people who start listing all their
service times trying to think I’m out in the daytime. I sleep during the
day because I work nights. I even get looks of disdain for saying I watch
services online. Seriously as a Bible study blog writer I find it sad
that we aren’t encouraging people to watch services online when they can’t be
there in person. My blog in times past was used by people who were Sick
and couldn’t get to church. There is a reason for doing services online
even after the Covid crap. How are we to spread God’s word to the
uttermost part of the earth when church members seem afraid of using
technology? We are commanded by Christ Jesus himself to share his word.
Matthew
28:19-20
“Therefore,
go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father
and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I
have commanded you. And surely, I am with you always to the very end of
the age.”
Friday
night of this past week I was watching Real Life’s online service before work
and Pastor Micah was talking about how God created us to do certain things and
how in the past he wanted to quit. I’ve been there so often with this
blog thing. Never more so have I wanted to quit since everything that
happened with my marriage. I keep asking how I can go on sharing God’s Word and
trying to give others hope when I’ve lost my hope and direction in life.
I’ve mentioned I keep praying for a sense of direction. Lately I’ve
seen medical things about myself that aren’t good, and I’m trying to eat and
live better. This may be the direction I’ve been praying for. Just
a small step. But God keeps sending people who have mentioned how much
they have appreciated my blog. Like I’ve told my friend David many times.
It’s not my blog it belongs to God. I show up and share what He
lays on my heart and I’m the feeble human in the equation. Never in my
life have I doubted what I’m supposed to be doing as I have since being
divorced. I don’t know where to go or what to do from here. But
Micah’s own story about wanting to quit hit me in a way that has had me
thinking. Sharing God’s Word through online technology is something that
needs to take place. Just like I need online services well someone else
needs the blog. God made a promise about his Word being shared that I
still cling to.
Isaiah
55:8-11
“‘For
my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, ‘declares the
Lord. ‘as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher
than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. As the rain and the
snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the Sower and bread
for the eater, so is my word that goes forth from my mouth: it will not return
to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for
which I sent it.’”
What
most of you don’t know is before I hit go live when I do this blog as a video
is I pray, and I ask God to use the things shared in it to draw people closer
to himself and give them hope. You get the things God shows me and I
share it with you because God wants me to encourage people. I use
technology to do so. This is another reason why the church should
encourage online things because they don’t know who they’re reaching or when.
I desire one day for another person to carry on this online Bible study
blog thing I’ve been doing.
I
have always tried to keep this blog as simple as can be because you can either
read it or watch it as a video. I even provide links to the music that
goes with it. My goal is simple. If one person draws closer to God,
then I have accomplished what I set out to do. It’s not rocket science,
it really isn’t. I’m not trying to be famous or do something crazy I’m
just trying to share God’s Word with someone else in the hope that it changes
them. If you ever come to this blog to see Zac, then I failed because I’m
just trying to point people back to the cross of Christ because if I point you
anywhere else I have failed. I try to do what my dad’s mentor taught him.
“Keep the cookies on the bottom shelf.” Keep things simple to where
any one can understand. Maybe one day God will call you to blog and
encourage others. If you have a phone and a tripod and most importantly a
Bible, it can be done.
