I’ve been at this blogging thing for 3 months now. And I am going to be honest with you (since that is what this blog is all about), It’s been getting harder and harder to come up with things to write about.

Perhaps after writing some blogs and then hearing from various people how much that meant to them, I feel like there is an expectation that needs to be met and don’t know exactly how to meet that expectation.

Maybe I am just in a writer’s slump and am currently lacking some creative juices.

It could be that now that life has slowed down a little bit, I have less exciting things going on in my life and therefore have less things to write about.

Whatever it is, it is getting more and more difficult to write these blogs each week. And I have 9 more months of this to go… Hooray.

But I am doing it. I am sticking to it. Why? Because God has asked me to do write a blog and I have followed through… this time.

To be honest, there are a lot of things that God asks me to do, that I don’t follow through on. We always have a choice to listen to God’s calling and do what he has asked of us. But we don’t always follow through.

I think part of it, is that there is no one physically there to disappoint. It’s a lot harder to see someone face to face and own up to what you haven’t done than it is to know that you can not do it and not have to worry about facing them in the future.

Another piece might be, as petty as it sounds, that we know God will forgive us. Countless times, and countless more He will. So it “doesn’t really matter if we do it or not.” (I do not believe this is true, but I do think it can be a common mindset for believers.)

But one day, we will have to face him. And it will be glorious. And we will have to face all of the things we did and the things we didn’t do. Hear me correctly, I am not saying that if we don’t do those things that He will forsake or we will lose our inheritance in heaven. I know, and I hope you do too, that my spot it secure.

What I am saying is that I believe that God still holds us accountable. We have already received his grace, but now because of that grace, we have a job to do. We spend the rest of our earthly lives living for him and letting him guide us and shape us into a more Christ-like version of ourselves every step of the way.

To put it in perspective, I am studying Revelation with Bible Study fellowship this year. One of the gals in my group said that her grandma would say to her, “When you are doing something, think to yourself ‘Would I be proud of what I was doing if Jesus came back right now?'” Shoot. Grandmas know what is up. They’ve lived lots more of life than we have and we have a lot to learn from them.

But that’s what I am talking about. We aren’t guilted into following the Holy Spirit’s lead or living our lives the way scripture has laid out for us. We want to make our Poppa God proud! He loves us so much to send his only Son to live, die, and rise so that we can have eternal life, and now we get to spend our lives learning from him and listening to him and making him proud by doing what he asks of us! How awesome!

It’s not easy. He often asks us to do things that are outside of our comfort zone. And there is grace waiting for us when we come to him and let him know that we didn’t do what he asked of us. But there is so much beauty in listening closely to your Abba Father and following what he is calling you to do – big or small.

…So there’s that. That just sort of came out and I don’t plan on reading it back before posting. Hopefully you were able to follow along and perhaps even get something out of it! Because I know from experience that even when you reluctantly follow God’s call, you’re still following it and He is bigger than your attitude and can do immeasurably more than we can ever ask or imagine in his name! Amen!

Sidenote: If you have suggestions for something you are going through, have wondered about, or like to hear about – comment below, and I would love to write a blog on it! It will be mutually beneficial – you’ll hear about a topic relevant to your life, and I will have some more writing material for the next 9 months!

Thanks for following!