Maximizing Our Honesty Scale

Written by Warren |Posted on June 21, 2009 | Comments

Funny how Hazel and I think alike. She mentioned that for the past few weeks she was stressed out of not being able to express herself fully in her blogging for the reason of eyes-on-walls that are ever-ready to criticize. She is beginning to feel that this blog is owned by these critics. But I told her “hey, its our blog not theirs.”

Since we started this blog we had this unspoken rule that the blog will be governed by our honest thoughts and concerns and not by criticisms of others. But since we moved to this new church our judgments were influenced so that we ought to watch our tongue more carefully to avoid offending others. In other words we became less insensitive to the people around us. This is good so that we could avoid offending other Christian’s consciences and more so our Church members who stealthily visit this site. But this sensitivity mission has gone way over above our heads that even our blogs, which was supposed to express our honest thoughts and feelings, became too square for us to even visit. Our blog site has, sad to say, become a walking zombie.

There were several instances that I would thought of alternative postings. Perhaps we could do the copy/pasting method that most christian bloggers do. But in doing so we would be building walls around us and thus make ourselves invisible to the audience. This, to us, is not walking in the light. This is not exposing our evil thoughts. This is not exposing who we really are in the eyes of many. As far as the copy/pasting Christian industry is concerned, we are becoming hypocrites. We will be in the hope of protecting our darkness and showing to everyone we are holier than others. That we know stuff that others don’t. It has become a showdown country. After all, this blog site is about us and not about authors of books. Otherwise we’d put up a site name as WikiSomething.com.

Another alternative is to “preach” thru our blogs. But this won’t show others who we really are. “Preaching” is the oldest trick in the book wherein you could hide your sinful lifestyle from the crowd and getaway clean. I believe true preaching is when people see me react on certain issues. How do I respond when problems arrive? How do I treat my wife privately? How do I treat my family privately? How do I fall into sin as a Christian? How do neighbors see me? How do I live my life during the week? I may be known as a Christian here in this blogsite, but do you really know how I live as a Christian? True preaching is not seeing the life of the Christian only on Sundays. Check their lives on Mondays as well. Tuesday. Wednesday and all the way to Saturday. How do I live my life during the weekdays?

The purpose of this site is this: to blog truths about us and about God. To show to everyone that we too are sinners and we need the grace of God to save us. That we too are human beings. We cry and we laugh. We have skin. We have flesh. We make mistakes that others would go “you shouldn’t have done that.” This is not the time to show to everyone that we have accomplished big or small. This is the time to show to everyone that Christ has accomplished in fighting our worst enemy: sin. This site is about showing our daily walk with Christ. This original vision, sad to say, faded out for the past months. But this time we are trying our best to open ourselves up once again maximizing our honesty scale.