Why Write - Or When You Forget

The important thing isn’t whether or not you’re 1) not consuming media or 2) producing whatever it is you feel like you need to be producing. It’s not being of use, being successful, having other people thinking you’re successful. It’s not finding the ideal job or activity or project. It’s not becoming the ideal human.

The important thing is whether or not Christ is filling your life—whether or not the things that you are pursuing correspond to his love for you and your love for him, in all of your life. That might be those things that fulfill both above points. It might not be. But the context that makes those things matter is whether or not you’ve abandoned everything to find Christ (and so to find the rest of things).

And something tells me that, like God and God, himself, being his own reason for our pursuit, writing would have some intrinsic motivator and reason if I believe in God and God, himself.

And that’s by grace through faith.

The important thing isn’t living the ideal life.

This isn’t an action plan. This is an understanding. This is not understanding seeking faith. This is understanding recognizing that it can’t seek faith, which I suppose, to some small degree, is faith seeking understanding.

Of course, undergirding this, lest I make law out of grace, is our true need, over which we have no power. God loves us. We are loved. That, in and of itself, is enough.