Dare to be Rad and Read?

Dare to be Rad?


Someone once asked me, “Why do you blog what you blog?”

My answer was, “Someone has to blog what everyone ought to blog.”

This post might not be likeable to many of you who might be reading it. But I am still going to say what I am going to say.

Do you know what a BLOG is for? Yea it was created by people who want to share their dairy with the whole world and not being shy of it. Few years back blogging wasn’t an “in thing”. Bloggers back then used it to put their dairy somewhere safe where only they can have access to. But now blog has taken a whole new meaning. People are using it to sell stuff, advertise, etc and most of all – tell the whole world about ourselves.

Right?

I dare say 80% of blogs worldwide are all about “Me, Myself and I” and I guess many of you can agree with it. We use our blogs to advertise ourselves and bring attention to ourselves. Well I did not say that is a crime alright. After all, everyone has this desire to be noticed and known right?

We normally blog about our school, our family, our holidays, our friends, our happiness, our sorrow and all kinds of stuff. These are the stuffs I normally see online.

I repeat, it is not a crime to blog about ourselves ok.

But Christians...

What are you using your blogs for?

Why are we spending so much time blogging about “me, myself and I” and where in every corners of your blog, is God?

I was once an anti-blog guy, you can ask Shannon. I was telling her that people who blogs have nothing better else to do. All they blog about is themselves and I don’t really find much pleasure and joy in reading. And I told her that I would never blog.

I was wrong.

Last year around October I created my blog. And I decided to do something most of us aren’t doing. I decided to blog God. We Christians should use the tools that are available to do what we are all called to do. The internet is a great tool to be used and we can take it and use it to our advantage. But why aren’t we doing so?

“Do not imitate the world. Instead, the world should imitate you!”
– Pastor Henry Ramaya, Senior Pastor of Grace Assembly Church.

Are we imitating the world? Are we imitating what the world does? You tell me. The world uses the blog for their own desires to bring attention to themselves. Are we doing the same thing?

Are we bringing too much of attention to ourselves?
Shouldn’t we be bringing attention to God?

It is alright if you want to blog about your friend. It is alright if you want to blog about how much you dislike what that guy did to you. It is alright if you want to blog about how frustrated you are because your parents did not want to buy you that laptop. It is alright if you want to blog about how much you spent today. It is alright if you want to blog about how you forgot to wear your underwear and went to school yesterday.

But it is not alright if there is nothing about God in your blog! Something must be wrong!

If God is in your life then where is God in your blog? Don’t you think He deserves to be known after what He did for you on the cross? Don’t you think we should be the light that shines His glory? Don’t you think we should be shouting God out loud? Don’t you think we should be radical?

If you can’t find anything to blog about I would tell you to have a look at your life. If there is nothing much you can talk about God then there must be something wrong in your life. Seriously.

An ambassador is someone who represents a state or organization to go out and tell people about the one that sent them. We are Christ’s Ambassadors but we are only going out and telling people about ourselves. Is that right? You tell me.

In order to change the world we have to be radical. We don’t make any difference if we continue to do what everyone is doing. Who deserves the glory and fame more? You or the One who created you?

So do you dare to be rad?
And do you dare to be read?

2 Corinthians 5:20
We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors...