This month I’ve been blogging for two years, and having a ball doing it, meeting terrific people and being encouraged in my own journey with God. I’ve recently met yet another very cool person via the blogosphere who is just starting out and asking me for advice. (Yes, asking ME!! Seriously?!?)
So I confidently sent her the WordPress Blogging U. link, and also told her that in addition to those several and free courses, (emphasis on the word “free”), we are abundantly provided with tutorials to browse on our own, trying things out here and there and at our chosen pace.
At least, that’s what I did. And I’m happy that I still can, especially as the company upgrades and changes “the look” I have grown accustom to when I first started. Plus, I know there are some improvements I need to make in the look and ease of the site, some strategies I’d like to try. But here is one of the most interesting take-aways I’ve gleaned from the experience, especially starting out as I did from the ground level, just slightly above “this is where you turn on the computer”:
Persistence is priceless.
If the look I wanted didn’t happen the first time, then let’s give it another go. Let’s see what’s available, or insert this particular widget, or drag and click on this button. Then there’s always the option of (gasp!) reading the directions, again,…and again. Or asking questions. And funny thing, shock of shocks—it works!! Of course, I’ve never been one terribly intimidated by the trial and error process anyway, and really, the security of the free world does not depend on the quality of my website…
Which translates into the intangible reality of our relationship with God. The prophet Hosea knew this. After exposing the error of the people’s idolatry (and accompanying observable behaviors) which was to be followed by the long-forecasted consequences, he then calls them to this hope:
“…Let us press on to know him.
He will respond to us as surely as the arrival of dawn…”
God is not intimidated by our trial and error, even with Him. Reference King David! Simon Peter! Moses! One thing these guys had in common was that they never gave up. It was never a question of God showing up; it was, rather, up to them to keep at it, even in the face of personal confusion or temporary moral defeat.
Because, when it come to a quality relationship with the Almighty God, persistence is priceless, and really, the security of someone else’s eternity may actually depend on it.
Hosea 6:3 Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
INSPIRATION with an ATTITUDE 