Blogging the Bible
Highly recommend: blogging.
I believe the ancients of ages past called it, rather quaintly, "journalling", and went at it with a real pen with ink in it and bits of flattened pulp.
Setting aside some time every day to check our directions is essential if we don't want to get lost. But there's no point just staring at a map and appreciating the pretty green and blue colours on it or the patterns and boxes. A map to be read for direction has to be read intently and purposefully. So with the Bible.
And the main point is the map/Bible reading. Blogging merely focuses the mind and will and ensures that time is set aside every day to read the Bible intently and purposefully (slightly difficult to write down any coherent thoughts on the passage otherwise). Doesn't have to be near some gurgling/stagnant mosquito-lavae-filled water element or at some quiet 有山有水的地方. Just as map-reading can be done anywhere, so can Bible-reading, even online.
Blogging anywhere is slightly more difficult if there isn't a wireless hotspot nearby and your next-door neighbour, unlike so many of mine, properly secures his wireless LAN (just kidding). But blogging is just a tool to direct the mind, heart and will to understand and process what God is saying in his word. The cavemen tools of pen and paper will do just as well.
:-)
I believe the ancients of ages past called it, rather quaintly, "journalling", and went at it with a real pen with ink in it and bits of flattened pulp.
"All scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work." (2 Timothy 3:16)So reading the Bible, the very word of God, teaches us to think God's thoughts after him, to see reality not with our muddied distorted glasses but with the clean clear lenses of God's. Reading the Scriptures day after day rebukes and corrects our wayward minds and crooked worldview; it straightens out our confused minds and the Spirit wields it to transform our hearts and wills so that we begin to live as God designed us to live: under God's rule, in God's truth, with love for God's people, in godliness and righteousness. It is the wonderful lamp to our feet in the darkness and the map and compass/GPS device that direct our paths.
Setting aside some time every day to check our directions is essential if we don't want to get lost. But there's no point just staring at a map and appreciating the pretty green and blue colours on it or the patterns and boxes. A map to be read for direction has to be read intently and purposefully. So with the Bible.
And the main point is the map/Bible reading. Blogging merely focuses the mind and will and ensures that time is set aside every day to read the Bible intently and purposefully (slightly difficult to write down any coherent thoughts on the passage otherwise). Doesn't have to be near some gurgling/stagnant mosquito-lavae-filled water element or at some quiet 有山有水的地方. Just as map-reading can be done anywhere, so can Bible-reading, even online.
Blogging anywhere is slightly more difficult if there isn't a wireless hotspot nearby and your next-door neighbour, unlike so many of mine, properly secures his wireless LAN (just kidding). But blogging is just a tool to direct the mind, heart and will to understand and process what God is saying in his word. The cavemen tools of pen and paper will do just as well.
:-)
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