Second blog Birthday today
ReevaluatingIt is my second blog birthday and I have a few things that I have to ask myself. I have some fears too.
I fear giving impressions that are not reality.
I fear standing up for or speaking about principles that I don’t always live up to.
Do I become a hypocrite as soon as I verbalize virtues what I don’t quite measure up to? Am I better off never talking about them? Should I chuck my blog because there is the opportunity to show only some things and not others?
There are the times when this blog challenges me to attain what I profess and there are times when I can see my mistakes and how I am growing and learning from them.
I do have many struggles that I couldn't begin to share, but once they have been fought through I know I own a gold mine. This I am not afraid to write about.
I kept this quote from Dr. Laura’s book Ten Commandments that I found interesting. It was from the chapter on bearing false witness.
“The reality is that one can believe and live by standards…but imperfectly. That is not hypocrisy, that is the reality of the limitations of all human beings to attaining divinity.”
-Dr. Laura Schlessinger
“Under the new rules, you can be called a hypocrite for upholding old standards of virtue that you don’t exemplify perfectly; but you can’t be called a hypocrite for sinking into utter moral squalor, as long as you profess to believe there is nothing wrong with it. So the defender of traditional morality is kept constantly on the defensive, since only he can be accused of hypocrisy…and you may look hypocritical when you’re only human.”
-Joseph Sobran
Anyway is it not something I am about to take lightly as it concerns me. It comes up frequently in Ernie’s sermons and it always makes my ears pop up. As Jesus said it is much better to go silently then to say you will go and not go.
