OK, so now I am hooked on Blogging!

That's right, who would have thought that just the act of posting my first blog would start me on a mental odyssey.  I have thought about my next blog all day.  I am sure this will wear off in time, but I am somewhat surprised by it.  Obviously I like to talk too much and I can't keep my thoughts to myself very well.  I guess that's just part of my make up.  Maybe a sinful part if not unchecked, but if directed properly, perhaps the Lord may use it for His Glory.


Now the real trick will be keeping it interesting and relevant.  I don't want to disappoint my public and my many followers.  


In my first attempt at blogging, I teased you all with a clever comment and the words "More on that later."  The comment was, and I quote: "The course of my life was dramatically changed when I discovered that saying you're a Christian really doesn't mean anything."  A real cliff hanger!


As a young man I considered myself a Christian.  This is interesting since that's kind of like claiming to be a car because you're in the garage.  My family had stopped attending church when I was 5 years old due to a conflict with a particular church environment.  They assumed that their faith, would adequately influence me toward the Lord.  


Unfortunately I knew nothing of their faith and its practices, principles or doctrines.  This didn't keep me from knowing that my parents were baptists, so I must be a baptist too.  Baptists are Christians so I was a christian.  Thus saying that you're a Christian doesn't really mean anything.


I had learned enough to have a mild fear of God and this kept me from being directly confrontational towards God.  But any true knowledge of God was speculative at best and I had largely formed my own views as seemed best to me.


   Proverbs 14
      ¹²There is a way which seems right to a man,
         But its end is the way of death. 


I was traveling my own path and unwittingly following the way of all flesh.  I was making up my own belief system that had nothing to do with any reality but my own...and it wasn't working.


More on that later...