It has been a long time since I have written a blog. I apologize. My heart hasn't been in it, my mind hasn't been able to find the right words, my health has been poor, and my will not strong enough. It isn't just my blogging that has suffered; it is my faith. Who reads these things, anyway? They aren't entertaining! There's nothing new in them to relate. They are just blurbs of one's hope and a means of sharing that hope with others who may or may not be interested.
But I read a bit of Paul's first letter to Corinth today and although Paul's faith was a soaring, fruitful, throbbing, contagious faith in comparison to my own, his words hit home. "Because God was so gracious, so very generous, here I am. And I'm not about to let his grace go to waste.......I spoke God's truth and you entrusted your lives to God."
Imagine it! How Corinth must have leaped forward in faith believing Jesus was the Messiah who died for our sins, coming to life again after death as we know it happened on that long ago Sunday. There is no room for laxness, for a puny representation of God and His goodness, generosity, and grace. No room for half-hearted thoughts of Him, half-hearted prayers. No room! No! No! No!
So, I find my way back to my bible, my journaling, my blog. I find room again in my heart. I figure out the problem in finding my blog again. I sit down and begin to write. "My cup runneth over".... in gladness.
This blog will find its way to its cloud, its very own cloud up in its big computer sky. And maybe someday it will be read by someone who feels he or she is alone. Or someone who is afraid to die. Or someone who has scoffed at the idea of God and God's Son who is the Savior of the world. Someone who may be afraid to live in a world so filled with hatred, hopelessness, and happenstance, finding it near impossible that God may have a plan for him or her which is filled with happiness when God is allowed to guide them through the tough stuff.
You're right. I'm not Paul, or even someone chosen to show you God's goodness. I'm an ordinary person, a grandmother to be exact, and what do I know anyway? Well, I know that I have been miserable away from my Lord. I miss studying Him! I miss talking about Him, even if it's through a silly blog! I miss His company. I really miss His company.
I find Him right away, in the pages of Paul's first letter to Corinth, within Paul's words. "Because God was so gracious, so very generous, here I am. And I'm not about to let His grace go to waste....I speak God's truth." And I do, too, in my very best way, speak God's truth!
So, I shall begin again to pledge myself to carry out my simple work and I am trusting God to give me the energy to do it. Someone somewhere needs to know Him and if I can help that to happen--even in a small blog--I will thank God for it!
Lord Jesus, I am Yours....Jo
Hello to all my old friends, esp. Dot and Dick
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