Good Christian Blogging should be John-The-Baptist Blogging

It’s no coincidence that the popular blogs I subscribe to are also the most helpful: Pro-blogger, Life-hacker, The Happiness Project, Michael Hyatt, Jeff Goins, or A Holy Experience.

Sometimes, when I read something profoundly helpful, I sigh, and say to my husband, “I’d like to be the Lifehacker or the Happiness Project of the Christian blogosphere.” Or when I read something insightful and brilliant in a Beth Moore Bible study, I ask him, “Do you think I could ever be the Beth Moore of the Christian blogosphere?”

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How can a Christian blogger make sure her writing is a blessing to her readers?

Not every post, of course. The word “blog” is a condensation of weblog, a diary, and there is a therapeutic element to blogging--recording who we are, and what we do and think. Without that, I think I would either bore-out or burn-out of blogging!!

However, many or most posts should point to someone greater than ourselves.

To the ultimate rock-solid foundation for happiness: the overwhelming love of Jesus, our wise friend; his Father and the Holy Spirit.

And that is the best gift we can give our readers, not just ourselves and our insights but a reminder of the deep sea joys of the home which we came, and to which we shall return.

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“After me will come one more powerful than I, the thongs of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie,” Mark 1:7.

Oh, amazing John the Baptist--who, while surrounded by crowds, and much praise and adulation knew that he could offer no solid foundation for people’s hope, or joy or bliss.

And, knowing this, the only honourable thing he could do was point them to the rock which would endure when all else would prove meaningless; to the only hope which would not disappoint; to the only joy which would satisfy in a world in which everything else offers diminishing returns, so that we wearily need more and more achievement, acquisition or experience to fill the emptiness within.

But one thing and one thing alone satisfies our restless spirits completely: the living waters of God.

And Lord, help these letters to the world, which are our blogs, to offer these living waters to the world.