Confessions of a Christian Blogger

Today, I’ve posted 180 days in a row. That’s right—180 consecutive days. For a few of you, that’s not impressive because you’ve posted every day for years and I think that’s awesome and if that’s you, I am in awe. For me, it’s been a learning experience and a test trying to create meaningful content daily. Recently, there have been a few days where I found myself not knowing what I would say. In a way, it resembles weightlifting. You do your daily reps, soak them in prayer, ensure you use the right form, and push your limits as you grow with each published post (and a few you don’t publish).

While I’d like to tell you this journey was all about discipline, consistency or spiritual growth, if I’m honest, some days it’s been about the fear of losing momentum, fear of disappointing an audience, or fear that my silence might mean I’ve lost the faithfulness of stewarding what the Lord has given me. None of these are true of course.

There were days I showed up with nothing but a blank screen (I’m from an older generation, so I almost typed blank page). Some days the only thing present was the quiet pressure to produce something. A “word”. An insight. Something.

We probably don’t talk enough about how easily spiritual practices can slide into performance or how devotion quietly becomes output. Being humans being, we can easily begin to measure faithfulness in frequency instead of fruit.

It’s important to listen to God, to the natural world around us, and to the spiritual creature within.Our hustle-spirituality culture has no theology of stopping—only baptized urgency and sanctified burnout. Some days, I needed to rest.

We call it discipline or obedience. Faithfulness. In reality it’s just anxiety clothed in spiritual language. And still, God met me there in the revelation that faithfulness is not the same as visibility.

But here I am, 180 days later. It’s been a blessing. The full fruit of this time is yet to be seen.

“A good tree can’t produce bad fruit, and a bad tree can’t produce good fruit.”

Matthew‬ ‭7‬:‭18‬ ‭NLT‬‬

Last week, I stumbled across a podcast focusing on Christian blogging, hosted by Stephen J. Bedard. In his podcast, Confessions of a Christian Blogger, Bedard shares his experiences as a blogger. He began his blogging journey in 2006. When you visit his website, you’ll quickly learn Stephen is a bit of a serial blogger. He is prolific, immensely experienced, and a sound voice. If your niche is Christian blogging, I encourage you to check out his podcast. If you’re someone who is writing or blogging in any way at all, I recommend checking out Bedard’s website.

Until my next post…

Be salty, stay lit.

Rainer Bantau —The Devotional Guy™

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