S.D.G.

Colossians 3:17 "And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him."

I used to write a lot more than I do now. Mostly blog posts that in reality were mini sermon ideas that I could write and flesh out. But even on occasion I would write songs or poetry. It was never great poetry or songs, but they could help me try to express the thoughts that were swimming around in my brain. But for the past couple of years I haven't done any real writing. I think there are a couple of reasons for that. The first is that I'm working more now than I used to, so that leaves less time for writing. Especially when your work involves sitting at a computer for 8 hrs a day. Some of those hours involving a lot of typing. As a correlation to working more, I am not reading as much as I used to do. I'm still reading my bible at my normal pace. But I'm not reading as much fiction or non-fiction as I used to. It's books that a lot of times would make me look a certain idea or scripture in a second light, and inspire me to write something on it. But honestly the main reason I stopped writing as I once did, was that I didn't think anyone was reading my writing. Or even worse if they were reading my writing, didn't think it was good enough to tell me they were reading it. 

The problem was that I was writing for the approval of others around me. I love a line out of one of Lecrae's songs. "If I live for their approval, I'll die by their rejection." I can't control how many people read he stuff I write, whether they like it, or whether they comment on it. What I can control is whether I am going to use whatever talents or skills I have to glorify God. So that's why I changed my blog title to one of the slogans of the Reformation. I want whatever I do, whatever I write, from here on out in my life, to be for the Glory of God. Someone more talented than I Johann Sebastian Bach ended all the compositions of his music with the initials of S.D.G. to signify that God was to be given credit for his masterpieces. While this is no masterpiece, I'm going to steal that idea.

S.D.G.