So, I decided after my persecution of bloggers had to come to an end. My revelation was that this practice was not only a useful resource for others to see what you are up to and spending time dwelling on, it is indeed also a very humbling tool to reform and shape my thoughts, meditations, revelations, conversations, and real life situations. I am quite confident that using this unlikely channel that I once scoffed at, will be used by the Lord to conform me to his likeness. I must confess that seeing some of the most respected theologiansof our day (even the old guys) use blogging to speak to the world on matters of the heart and addressissues in our culture. It is my stubbornness and pride that i have not till now see its usefulness.

I say all this partially jokingly and another part quite honestly. My heart has been very much changing recently as I’m sure many of my friends could attest to. Mostly good, but yet I am still a sinner so there is sin to go along with it. I have been consumed with a passion for the word of God, a deepening of my knowledge of Christ’s sacrifice, and greater understanding of the attributes of God. I’m learning a lot and have a lot left to learn. Jesus addresses the pursuit of godly knowledge in the parable of the sower and explains that we need to have our roots deeply sunk into the ground lest we whither and die when the sunbeats down on youeven though you shot up fast and furiously out of the ground. Being a biology major and having had over three semesters of biology things being drilled into my brain I have come to know a thing or two about plants and the proper funtion of their roots. There are many plants and fungi who are not too impressive above ground. They are simple and healthy looking but still do not have wonderful radiant flowers budding off of them. But the wonderful thing about some of these plants or fungi is they have massive intricate roots that span great lengths and depths. Even when you see some mushrooms that sprout yards from each other, they are connected by the same underground system of roots. These plants or fungi or whatever are able to extract much much more than your average plant root. These things are masterpieces. I think God intends for us to walk the journey set before us just as these living things funtion day to day. They are constantly soaking up, never stopping, always eager to have more. But yet they do not spit it right back to the top of the plant to make its growth happen any more rapid than it was designed to. I confess that the more I learn the more I do not mearly use for my understanding of Chirst’s sacrifice and understanding the attributes of God. I rather use this rapid intake of wonderful knowledge and use it to almost hijack the growth that God is working in me by speaking alot quicker than I listen. And while I realize that Jesus’s parable is more of addressing those who stop at the passion part and do not see the need to go deeper in knowledge of God’s word, its been used to remind me of this biological situation and used it to see the other flip side of Jesus’ warning.

*Sigh* Now I’m just ranting. I must say I am very very tired. I hope my blogs from now on are not as “flabby” and scattered as this one but these are the things that were bouncing around in my mind today. Well, this was day 1. Pretty sure I will get used to this practice. I’m off to bed now.