My commentary is a blog on Google. My readership has exceeded 700 views per day, but whenever Google develops a new algorithm, the number of views are curtailed immensely, and likely for two reasons: (1) I do not advertise, and (2) my perception is that Christian doctrine is minimized. At this time, I am approaching 200,000 views since I started writing on this blog.
When the views lessen, I get dismayed. I want to share God's Word, and when it is not read, I feel slighted because God seems to be. Then I think: God is always slighted; He gets used to that. On the other hand, I'm not God and don't like feeling diminished. I must always write for right reasons. For my own esteem is not right!
Sometimes, the thought occurs to me that I can write for myself. Writing increases my communion with God. If others don't want to understand the Doctrine of God, that is to their disadvantage. I like to understand God, His Will, and His plans for me (Jer 29:11). That God plans for me, makes God a personal one. My study and writing is more for me and communion with God than others.
I recently finished reading The Diary of Anne Frank. The diary was 2-1/2 years at the end of the life of a then thirteen years-old Jewish girl who was hiding from the Nazis. She never knew if she would live another day, and her living conditions - in hiding - was living in fear. She wrote a diary with honest appraisal of all her thoughts. She never fretted about dying, but lived the best that she could in her isolation. As a Jewish girl, she never knew Jesus, but she was trying to - even celebrating Christmas and Easter.
Anne seldom shared anything which she wrote. She believed that she was only writing for herself to herself. She named her diary friend "Kitty." Anne wrote the following about her diary: "If I haven't any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well then, I can always write for myself." Then Anne wrote for her own self - to exist in those perilous times. Anne and her family were discovered by the Nazis, she spent her last days separated from her family, and died not yet sixteen in a Nazi concentration camp. When her family was arrested, her diary was thrown aside as trash by the Nazi commander, but it was retrieved by a friend. Her father allowed it to be published.
Anne wrote if for herself. However, according to annefrankguide.com, "Since then the diary had been translated into 70 languages, and published in over 60 countries. More than 30 million copies have been sold." Anne wrote for herself but was read by the world!
Now back to me. I am not Anne Frank and neither do I hide from those who may kill me. Someday, Christians will hide and an evil government will kill them. Jews were killed mostly by shot and gas, but Christians will die by the socialist/Islamic method - beheading (Rev 20:4). My hope is that I will escape that tribulation which Anne did not. I write so that others can escape the Great Tribulation coming, and the eternal tribulation in Hell.
Perhaps few will read what I write at the present because they feel secure and safe. The Jews did not! The time will come when people wish that they knew God but don't know enough about Him to comprehend how magnificent and loving He is.
In this blog, like Anne, I write for myself. I want to escape the "Nazi" types during the tribulation, and the best way to avoid beheading is to miss the train to the persecution. Anne didn't. She was on that train, and I my hope is to avoid that at all costs. Anne worried about those on the trains to their death but she could do little about it. I believe that I can. I write for those who face persecution in the last days. I write for those who at the present, don't believe it is coming! The Jews never thought that Germans could ever be that cruel. In the last days, Hitler will live again, only in the Antichrist's manifestation. He will embody every murderous dictator who ever lived.
In the end, 30 million people will never get to read what I write today, but perhaps a mere 144,000 will discover my warnings and heed them. If not mine, then others' commentary like mine. Bibles may not be allowed in the apocalypse; perhaps commentary from then "ancient times" will suffice.
I want to leave a legacy; not for the memory of me, but in remembrance of God who died for spiritual criminals as myself. I love God because He so loved the me. (John 3:16). I so love others that neither do I want that they should perish. That's why I write.
Anne got excited when she wrote about the joys of living. I get excited when I write about living forever. Anne was dismayed when she was slighted. I am dismayed when God is slighted. Read about Anne and her face-off with death, then, consider your own face off. She didn't know Jesus, and you have that opportunity. Jesus fends for everyone; no one fended for Anne.
The second birth is the enlightenment, that like Anne, you can't save yourself. But unlike Anne who died, and I hope not eternally, that those who depend on Jesus will never die.
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