No Need To Be Ashamed

I have decided that I should begin blogging again for the purpose of keeping my own sanity, and keeping my mind sharp and accountable. This sudden change of mind occurred when I read a friend of mine’s quotes - this one stuck out – “Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.” – C.S. Lewis.
This prompted me to think immediately of the quote located at the bottom of this blog – “It has always happened hitherto that whenever I have begun to feel an attachment to places, persons, or things, of a merely temporary nature, I have been carried away from them. Amen! May I live as a stranger and pilgrim upon the earth, may we be brought to that better country where painful changes are known no more.” Henry Martyn.
I had the joy of doing a morning prayer meeting with a few other men just a couple weeks ago, we read through Philippians together and these words, which the two previous quotes echo, struck us all anew – “For me to live is Christ and to die is gain.”
Oh what other purpose am I here than to glorify Christ?
What other reason do I live than for the glory of my God?
And again – what joys lie ahead for those who faithfully lay their lives before God now!
I will begin to blog because I have not confessed with my mouth enough that Jesus Christ is my Lord and Saviour.

I hope to do three things then in blogging, the third being the most important by far, so much so that the first two actually are part of the third.
1) I hope to improve my writing
2) I hope to be more studious and “abide in” the word (John 8:31,32). “Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth” – 2 Timothy 2:15
3) I hope to be glorifying to God, to please Him in my pursuit of truth. That my living may actually be Christ, and my death will be gain.

I pray the Lord would keep me courageous, devout, and true.