Why do we stop writing???

I friend of mine has just started to run with the idea of writing a blog and I remembered this blog of my own. Then I paused to look at the last date I posted here: 18th June 2013. That's nearly two years ago!!

So why has it been so long? To be honest, I do not really have an answer. In truth I was speaking about this subject with some other (previous) bloggers who had discovered a similar thing about their own blogs. Is it that we don't have anything to blog about? Is it that our life with God has suddenly dried up? Is it that we just don't have time? (But are we really any busier than we were when we were blogging?) Why? I think everyone might have a different story to tell, but for me that desire to share God's blessings, to be a witness alive in sharing the beauty of the gospel, that fades. And again, not that there was a specific reason but life happens, we do things, we go places, and its easy to forget, its easy to slide into the comfortable church pew of life and be a cosy Christian. But when additional things require more effort, we push them aside. We like to stay in our comfort zone. Life is just easier that way.

So I'd like to take this time to start blogging again. To spend the extra time each day to post something inspirational, to share my walk with God and to live daily from the grace He has given to me; the grace He gives out freely to those He loves, to those who believe in Him.

"But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness, love. For if these thing are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor un-fruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ." (2 Peter 1:5-8)

The words of Peter here give so much comfort and and also command. Reading them we can be encouraged in the fruit of life with Christ. If we truly belong to Christ, if we serve Him then these virtue's (diligence, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, godliness, brotherly kindness and love) will flow from our lives, because it is impossible if the Spirit dwells in us to not produce this fruit. 

And yet their is also command here. Peter encourages his readers to work with this. We cannot sit back on our laurels and expect the Spirit to do His work. No we also need to work. The Christian life was and is never an easy road. But we know what eternal reward awaits us, and we have the comfort of knowing who is beside us every step of the way. 

So live today in the Spirit, and let His work be evident in your life!!

God bless. 

[And I will endeavour to continue to post here]