Resolution to Blog more

I suck at blogging! There, I admit it. So many thoughts running through my head each day that I could openly share, and yet I don't make sufficient time to jot them down in a format you can follow. Last night I was reflecting on Living For Bigger Things in preparation for Sunday's message. Reading the book of Haggai and God's complaints about His people during that period. It was a heady time for Israel: they had been granted access to their homeland once again -after 70 years in a foreign country (Babylon) and had this wonderful opportunity to return and rebuild. They launched into an ambitious plan to restore their temple and rebuild their culture, but they soon lost the big picture, gradually narrowed their focus to just their selves, and homes, and left the temple in disrepair. They lost sight of the forest by focusing on the trees. God inspired Haggai to chastise and challenge them: don't just focus on yourself and your house; get going again on my house. That's not because God is into buildings; but the temple would enable them to perpetuate their faith -including their hope in His promised Messiah, who the whole world would benefit from. It's easy to let the blinders grow; to narrow your focus; just worry about your household, and care less about God's agenda, and others' welfare, than your own. God challenged them to look beyond themselves and live for bigger things --for His purposes, and His plans for them, and -in turn- for us! We face the same temptations: to neglect God's bigger agenda in favor of our own agendas. Woe to us if we do. There are some bigger things that God wants us living for than even our own families' welfare and prosperity. That's what I'll be focusing on this Sunday. I face the same challenge: to focus God's bigger vision for my life: to share His truth in relevant, appealing, and understandable ways. I pledge to do a better job -in part- by blogging regularly about what He's revealing to me, and provoking me to reflect on. We'll see if I can stick to it! Read Haggai chapter 1 today.