Back in the Saddle

I haven't posted in a while and I have found that this fact mirrors my thought process for the last two months. Let me explain.

I have found that posting on your own blog requires a much more defined thought process than simply commenting on other blogs, with a few exceptions of course (genebridges comes to mind). Simply by typing these words on this blog I am forced to be creative and organized at the same time. When I first started the blogging adventure (if you can call 1 post an adventure!), I had that type of interest and focus, but I soon found myself scurrying around riding the coattails of other organized creators.

Riding coattails is simply adapting the original authors material to some characteristic of your own life and adding your own narrative and commentary. Sure, collaboration has it's own benefits, but if all you do is appropriate someone else's work for your own, you do not grow.

What's sad is the same thing can happen with our ministry in the church. How often do we appropriate the Holy Spirit working in other believers as the Holy Spirit working in us? Am I being used of God, or am I a chest thumping wannabe that proudly talks about what God is doing in my church?

There is a distinct difference in the two.