Free & Faith

I am starting this blog because I wanted a place to post about matters of faith and Christianity. I have other blogs I started for different reasons. By the way, since this is going to be about me (Free) and matters of faith, that's where the title came from (and it was available for Blogger!)

With this blog I hope to share conversations and thoughts with others about the daily life as a Christian. For the last many years of my life I have been complacent and lazy about my faith and commitment to the Lord Jesus. Things have happened recently to encourage me to be more firm in my walk as a follower of Christ.

For so long I have been a worker, daughter, wife, sister, friend and citizen who happens to be a Christian. I now want to be a Christian who happens to be a part of society. In other words, I want to be a Christian first.

One of the things that happened to me recently was that I happened across a series of sermons on culture and music by a pastor who is exposing the deception that has crept into aspects of everyday life. Here is one of the videos:





After hearing this teaching, I really had to take a look at some of the entertainment choices I'd made. It was a little shocking to me to realize how little attention I had paid to the arts and culture I was fond of. That led me to prayer and the desire to be more discerning. Since then, I have dusted off my neglected Bible and gotten back into the reading and studying of God's Word. I never should have allowed myself to be lured away.

The thing about life is that, if you are not careful, you can get pulled away from the most important things by meaningless things. For myself, I allowed myself to get so busy filling up time with working, talking and amusing myself that I grew away from spending time being thankful to God. I grew away from praying (except for before bed and when worried about something), reading the Bible and just being an attentive child of God.

Let me tell you something about how lax I have become as a Christian. I rarely attend church anymore. I curse on a daily basis. I gossip and criticize and belittle. I spend more time doing my hair and nails than I do praying or reading God's Word. I have been so disobedient.

Calling myself a child of Christ, I have often been more worried about offending friends and family. I have been so self-centered that I forgot to be thankful every minute to my Savior.

So. This blog is something I am doing to connect with other Christians. I want to share the Word and encourage and be encouraged. With my other blogs I have met people and formed connections that have nothing to do with my faith. I joined Twitter and connected in a matter of weeks with hundreds and hundreds of people. I sincerely hope that I can do the same here.

Oh, and because this is my blog, I will be opinionated! LOL. I will be sharing information and ideas that may offend some people. The only Person I am seriously worried about offending is Jesus Christ. Everyone else can just choose not to visit this blog.

Peace
--Free

Romans 12:2
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.