Should I write spiritually?

It’s 7:30 a.m. on Saturday. Stuff is bouncing around in my brain, ricocheting like a steel ball in a pinball machine (I may be dating myself, I don’t know if those are still around). For one thing, the first major I listed in college (1961) was journalism. Something else is amazing this morning. I found it in the Bible as I reviewed scripture I copied by hand on Wednesday morning.

John, one of those early followers of Jesus, wrote that the Word became flesh. My understanding of the meaning of “Word” there is that it was God, not word as in the many bits of sentences I am writing right now. The Word became flesh. Again, my understanding is that John is saying God became human. That is amazing! How can a man write that God became another man? And how can that happen?

Another question gets my attention at the moment. Should I write spiritually at this blog website? For a long time, I wanted to write a blog. I didn’t really know just what a blog is. I saw that we can write blogs and that it is free. “Free” should be qualified. It ain’t all free! In recent months, I dabbled at the one, two, three steps of opening a blog. But to a non-techie, it was intimidating.

A few weeks back, I jumped in. I have published nine or ten posts. Others wait for tweaking. But still the question, should I write spiritually? The answer, I cannot be who I am and do what I do without getting into the personal meaning of John’s assertion that God became human. That event impacts who I am, no, it is who I am. I cannot be the human being I was designed to be without being and doing as provided for in the God-became-human event.

So, what you are reading at this moment is the intro piece for my blogging about the Bible, faith, and church. My spiritual frame of reference is based upon the person of Jesus as revealed in the New Testament division of the Bible. It is also based upon the anticipation of the God-became-human event in the Old Testament division. I accept both divisions as God’s communication of truth.

May the writing and the reading enrich us both.