No More Blogspotting
This post is in response to the BlogSpotting entry that I had created on Saturday night. Excited that there were finally enough links to this blog to create a BlogSpotting post, without thinking and motivated by pride, I began compiling a list of my favorite links to this blog and the list of blogrolls on which my name is found. Basically BlogSpotting is a practice that has become popular lately in the blogosphere, wherein a blog's auther cites various blogs which have noticed and linked to his or her blog. I do not and cannot project my motivation on everybody who BlogSpots, I can say that for me the function was to demonstrate and proclaim my own wisdom and to make that wisdom known. The BlogSpotting icon that I created is a perfect illustration of the sin that I was allowing to take root in my heart as I searched: Binoculars peering out for any evidence of me in cyberspace, seeking to magnify my glory. A BlogSpotting post gave the appearance that the point of this blog is to demonstrate my own wisdom, and as I chronicled all the links and blogrolls, I began to believe it even though compared to people like Warnock, Challies, Pyromaniac, or James White, I'm a no-one. Neverthless, 10 links in 5 months is enough to trick me into being proud.
This blog is not a place to proclaim my greatness or wisdom; it is a place to proclaim God's. And one place where "the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God" (Rom 11:33) is best seen the person of Christ. Christ, God come to earth as a man to save men and bring them to God, is described in 1 Corinthians 1:24 as the power of God and the wisdom of God. It is Christ and him crucified that I want to proclaim on this blog (1 Corinthians 2:2). And if I boast let me only boast in the cross (Gal 6:14). So you will see no more BlogSpotting from me. I pray that God would give me the desire and the diligence to mortify pride and cultivate humility by spending my blogging time - time I would have spent searching technorati for any signs of linkage to my site and analyzing my traffic patterns - on preaching the gospel to myself in my writing and then letting you all get a glimpse of it.