After reading one of my cousin’s recent blog posts, I started thinking again about something that’s been on my mind for awhile. Without trying to sound conceited or patronizing, I am wondering how one remains faithful and loves God more when things are “going well.”
In all honesty, I found it easier to reach out for God in the difficult circumstances I went through several years ago. At that point, all I could do was reach out and just hang on. For the past 6 years or so, my life has been really good…perhaps even easy. Sure, I’ve had challenges (starting a career, having a baby, navigating life changes, etc), but there have been no tragedies. No death, no divorce, no major health issues, no lack of security… I live in America; I live in abundance. Perhaps the biggest challenge I face on a daily basis is simply my faithfulness to God instead of living for myself or any of the other idols we worship in our culture.
Several years ago I came across this verse, and it imprinted deeply in me:
Psalm 37:3 “Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and [a]cultivate faithfulness.”
I can’t say that I’ve always been faithful. In fact, I’ve been far from it quite a bit. But God has always been faithful. And I know He wants me to walk in that, to practice that. Sometimes I think it might look like mopping my floors or planning a meal. Sometimes it means forgiving someone even if they aren’t sorry, or giving my son loving attention when I am tired of him and would rather do something else.
Truthfully, I’m not completely sure I know how to love God more, but perhaps faithfulness in the little things is a start. I may not be moving fast, but I suppose even baby steps will take me somewhere.
Sorry For This Random Post,
January 26, 2012 in Miscellaneous | Tags: Blogger, Comments, Wordpress | 1 comment
but maybe there are some regular bloggers that can help me out with this one?? I wrote awhile back why I thought WordPress was better than Blogger. I have not changed my position.
I follow several blogs, and I realize that Blogger is popular. I don’t have a problem with this. Sometimes I like to comment on other people’s posts. Whenever I want to comment on someone’s post who has a blogger account, you have to enter a word-verification to make sure there is no spam. It’s annoying, but again, not really a problem.
What I DO have a problem with is how to connect my comment with my WordPress account instead of my Blogger account! (Yes, I have one. I do like Google for other things.) I have the option of choosing my comment identity as my Google account, which is definitely the easiest. But when I try to connect it to an “Open ID” (WordPress), I always seem to have issues. I just spent 10 minutes trying to post one comment (with my WordPress identity) on someone’s Blogger blog, and it kept saying that I wrote in the wrong word verification. I did NOT have the wrong word verification, blogger just seems to hate people with open id’s. UGH. I finally just gave up since it hated me.
Has anyone else experienced this issue and can tell me what I’m doing wrong?