To Blog Or Not
I am thoroughly ambivalent about a return to blogging. I want to, and I don't, and there are any number of reasons I can think of to stay away, not least of which is how little I really have to say. Add to that the fact that I have informally dedicated this year to actively spending time away from the computer and reading more (so that, if the Lord should so desire, I might actually have something coherent and meaningful to say again someday), and it just seems best to limit my writing here.
Which brings me to the fundamental reason for posting this at all. Recently I began reading The Cross of Christ, by John R.W. Stott. It is a book that kept showing up by reference in some of the many web sites and blogs I inhabit lately, and it intrigued me as I have been considering the centrality and primacy of the cross in what I believe.
The book, though I am just part way through chapter three, has done nothing to lesson my conviction that I spend far too little time meditating on, considering, talking about, and living out the realities of what Christ has accomplished on the cross. I didn't need much convincing at the outset that the cross of Christ needed a far more prominent place in my thinking (hence my choice of the book), but Stott is opening my eyes and my heart to a deeper and deeper comprehension of what it means. I find my pulse increasing and my emotions swaying, from horror at the realities of what my sin has cost to a stunned amazement at what God took upon Himself to do. I can't recommend this book highly enough.
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