Heavy Lifting

   I want to reflect on what Oswald Chambers has to say each day and use that to what I think God is saying to me in it. So my first reaction is to God, and my second is to write those thoughts down and share them with anyone else who reads this blog. My main goal is to hear God and then, secondarily, to share my reflections with whomever God puts in this path.

   Chambers uses a verse today to emphasize his point from John 12:32. "(Jesus says), if I be lifted up, I will draw all men to Me". This tells me who I should be lifting up.

   I like writing this blog most every day, which means that I do like writing it, and I try to do it most every day, not most days I like doing it. I even like it when folks say things like "Hey, I read your blog and try to drop by and read it every day", or I see, on the blog stat page, that several people have read a particular entry. I guess most of us like to feel appreciated for something we have done.

   But, I realize that the purpose of the prose is not to make me look good to others. I sometimes get to the point that I stew over the wording of a phrase, not to select just the right meaning, but to sound good to a reader. The question comes from the verse above, who exactly I am lifting up here?

   If my purpose is to interact with God and to share that interaction, whether confession or praise, with others so that they too might see God interact in their lives, that is good. But if it is to feel good inside about doing something, that is pride, and that is not so good.

   So how am I doing? Only God can tell me about our interactions, but hopefully someone else is benefiting from this exercise also.

   Just so I keep my priorities in order.