December 12, 2010

  • Sunday Devotional: Lead me not into Blogging Temptation

    Overall, blogging has been a nice source of entertainment and thoughtfulness in my life. But at times, it can also become a source of temptation. Here's a few examples of the types of sins that blogging encourages:
    1. Lack of Self-Control. Blogging is often about sharing things that are hard to talk about and easy to write about. This is great when it's healthy expression of feelings...but then one gets carried away and talks about things that are better left unsaid. Or, one starts being that open in everyday life, and you end up offending people for the wrong reasons.
    2. Pride. Yes, I went there, ha. After I've written a good blog and get comments telling me how great I am, it's easy to start to strut a little. Eventually a line is crossed between "Thanks for saying I write well" and "SACRIFICE TO ME YOUR FATTED COWS. I PREFER MEDIUM-WELL." Whenver I start talking about what I expect or deserve, I know it's probably time to shut the browser and walk away.
    3. Time-wasting. Yes, it can be a sin to time-waste, if you're putting off important things like your family and close friends to blog. Priorities can quickly get blurred because of blogging.
    4. Verbal slander and seduction. The more we write, the better we get at using words. Words can be used to encourage, educate, and edify. They also can be used to make people cry or to make people lust. As blogging makes our word usage more powerful, it also adds to the responsibility not to encourage cruel behavior.
    5. Your own thoughts?

Comments (11)

  • I think most people start blogging for a short amount of time then quit :P Or only post when they're upset, so they don't experience a lot of those long-term effects. Pride is definitely a biggy, but it's okay if you haven't crossed the line of enjoying a few compliments (like you said). Ah... The sin of wasting time :'( happens so often with me personally but I'm cutting it down :P

  • Time wasting - Yes, when I know I could, and should, be spending time with my Lord... either in quietness, or in reading His word.

  • so true. thanks for sharing this!

  • I think you are on the money with all the points. So much so that I am hard pressed to come up with anything more than what you've already written! :P I haven't been blogging as long as you but I have definitely seen these side-effects of blogging occur in friends I became close with on Xanga and elsewhere...

    PS - Xanga chat is being terrible.

  • I very much agree. There are other reasons, but you hammered the nail on the head!

  • Agreed!

  • I was about to wonder what you're doing up at 2 AM, and then I realized I'm up, too.

  • Time wasting for sure. Basically for the fact that I don't feel as if my writing is the kind to help or influence people...it's basically like a journal that everyone get's to flip through the pages and read.

  • #5: blogging is about sharing what i want to say, and then seeing who reads it and hoping they don't just think it's funny.

  • Haha

    Great insight.

  • Hmm I feel guilty of a lot of these. Then again I've closed the browser a few times after reading over an entry....And I like cursing and bitching about other peoples' stupidity. I vent a lot on my blog =/ That's because a lot of those things I vent about I don't want to say out loud and get screamed at...But yeah I agree. 

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