From the blog

Why do I have this blog?

I first started blogging back in my home schooled days as a way of publishing my writings. My dad had set me up a little WordPress site and it was me and my keyboard against the world. I wrote little stories and short letters that little ten year old me sent out into the void of the internet. That blog is long gone by now, and I barely remember it even existing, but it was the original inspiration for the site that you are now reading today.

I have always had a love for writing since the moment I began reading stories. Most of my life has been spent reading and whenever I wasn’t actively reading, I most likely was attempting to write stories of my own.

My voracious consumption of literature has in many ways dwindled over the years as life has become busier, but I still hold a great respect for the power that words hold and the innate beauty there is in painting pictures through letters on a page.

Today, I don’t spent much time in fictional works as I have become consumed with an urgency to speak a bit of truth into an utterly dark world. I flood my days with Scripture and theological commentaries as I yearn to learn more about our gracious and wonderful God and Father.

I recognize that my time here on Earth is short and I have no desire to waste it. It grieves me to see the hopelessness in the lives around me as daily people go through life with the weight of the world on their shoulders.

"Therefore I intend always to remind you of these qualities, though you know them and are established in the truth that you have. I think it right, as long as I am in this body, to stir you up by way of reminder, since I know that the putting off of my body will be soon, as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me. And I will make every effort so that after my departure you may be able at any time to recall these things." 

2 Peter 1:12-16

As Peter spoke of in 2 Peter 1, I think that it is right to make every effort to remind you of the many truths of Scripture. The gospel message is just as much for the believer as it is for the nonbeliever.

Whoever you may be, I pray that God speaks to you today and draws you nearer to him. Whether he uses my frail attempts of communication through these silly little blog posts (or more accurately titled, discombobulated passionate rants) or not, I ask him to open your hearts to see your dire need for a savior.

I am a broken sinner, daily in need of a saving savior. I do not write to change the world. I write as a way of developing a better understanding of the world around me and hopefully encouraging you to do the same.

I believe that God speaks through what he has spoken and that he uses his children as instruments to be light in a darkened world.

Each day I pray that God will speak to us through what he has spoken and that we will grow closer to him. I ask him to speak through me and that my immaturities and weaknesses do not seep through into my writing.

To God be all the glory and my purpose behind everything.