Start Foundational

Here we go- first blog post ever.  Why blog?  I really don't have a reason except a good friend thought I might be good at it.  Now that I think about it, however, it could be a good exercise to get the abstract thoughts that are always going through my brain into a more concrete, written form.  Blogging might help my writing.  Who knows?  I might really click with this and be writing blogs for the rest of my life.  Or, more likely I will get tired of the whole world seeing my writing and give up after a week.  Maybe millions of people will be interested in what I have to say.  Maybe my mom will be the only person ever to read a blog I write.  I would accept any extreme and be honored by anyone that reads my little blog posts.  Thanks.


The beginning is a good place to start.  Who am I?  I am a servant of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.  My origin is the Midwest, my house right now is on top of a big hill in Pennsylvania, and my final home is with Jesus.  I was a little kid.  Now I'm an older kid.  I can't remember a day I didn't think I was a Christian, but I was wrong until the the day I repented of my sins against God and Jesus became my Lord.  He's like my boss, now, you see; but I'm not a very good employee a lot of the time.  It works out just fine, though, because Jesus really does all the work, and I'm just here to hang out with him.  It's a great job.  I used to be an extrovert and have a huge personality, but nowadays I tend to hold back and read books by myself.  I have the best family ever.  We have a cool dog.  I'm in college now, so I don't see them very often, but I think about them all the time and miss them a lot.


Enough about me.  Let's get bloggin!  Truth is the description of reality.  It is absolute and can be known through revelation from God.  Why else would I care to write down the things I believe, if the truth cannot be known?  I beg God two things for myself on a regular basis: 1) That He will not allow me to destroy a ministry by falling into sin, and 2) That He will not allow me to proclaim lies.  The truth is real, folks.  It matters.  We are made to think in terms of yes and no, and that's not an accident.  How can you know the truth?  If it is revealed to you by the Giver of truth, God Himself.  Oh dear, that sounds so exclusive!  Well, given that God made this world and everything in it, all that we experience all the time is the subtle whispering of God to accept the truth before us. 

So there you go.  Me in a nutshell; truth in a nutshell.  End of post number one.