This blog didn't really begin in 2008 as the list on the right side shows. It began Yahoo 360, where so many of our Junior High girls were and I decided to encourage Bible reading with posts about our upcoming Sunday School lessons. Soon there were other sites offering a wider audience, and I then moved to Multiply when I retired. By 2008, Multiply was changing, too. Google and Microsoft both offered sites that helped the non-technical write blogs - and I chose Google.
I've not regretted it, but I have let life take my attention away. I have no excuse. I have a nice computer setup, internet access, a good Bible (along with a good digital Bible that allows cut/paste easily accomplished.) As you can tell by looking at the years, months and dates of posts, there have been times life events have been overwhelming. 2018, 2020, and the next years that showed a slow decline.
Please be assured - I haven't lost my own desire for Bible reading. If you take a look at the "What I Believe" tab of my blog, I list the Bible in the first paragraph. Not because it is the most important part of my belief system, but because it contains the specific doctrine that defines my own personal beliefs. There isn't a single man, a single ideology, a single moment in history or life that begins the journey except for Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. (Genesis 1:1)
Do you realize how much belief is required in those ten words?
First, you have to believe there is a god. Then you have to know why the title is God, not with a little G that covers a multitude of beliefs that have proven not to have been any part of a supreme being capable of creating what comes next - the heaven and the earth. The reference is to a being who created the heavens - infinite and universal, not simply the ground we are standing upon. We've added multiple worlds of knowledge since those ten words were written. We aren't able to prove they were written by Moses - but I firmly believe it is possible they were, along with the next five books.
Do you - can you - believe that? When you do, you'll want to share that with others. Paul did, and he did a great job of showing how that's done:
For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report? So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. (Romans 10:13-17)
