Day 110 - sorry for the lapses.

Day 110 and its looking more and more like a 'every second day' blog. Hey, unless you blog every single day quit complaining!

The sad thing that it has got me reflecting on is "could his mean that I'm only intentionally following Jesus every other day?"

The truth ........maybe!!

Every day i wake up I mean to blog. So could it be that every day I wake up I plan to follow Jesus - but .... stuff happens, things come in, other things take over.

Its the truth.
(So I guess that's my intentional follow of Jesus today ...major on truth!)

Now this doesn't mean that every day I don't hold to a Christian world view.
It doesn't mean that I go out and commit some cardinal sin.
It doesn't mean that I deny Jesus.
But it does mean that some days slip by and really, my life is no different than the people around me who don't claim to follow Jesus. Nothing is distinct.

Makes you wonder if the more weird/extreme forms of following Jesus that some Christians portray might be better .....even on off days either by how you dress, attending yet another church service, speaking some King James language and/or clearly being "not of this world" at least you remain distinct.

My problem - because I believe following Christ is not done with the extremes of clothes, language and being oddly different, but from being "in the world" while not being of it my distinctions require intentionality. This authentic following cannot happen at the surface level. It is deeper. Christ's transformation happens within the soul and when we live it out it is with substance and meaning, not trivia or surface.

So on a day when I get cluttered up with junk, when I spin too busy, when I feel sucked dry or just crappy ........I don't look any different than people who don't follow Jesus.....and while I may hold still to my faith in Christ ......my lack of intentionality means I do a lousy job at representing Him.

So maybe my lapses in blogging reveal unintentional lapses in authentic following.

Excuse me if I remain sometimes lapsing in blogging, but don't excuse me if I fail to follow intentionally every day.