Words for Him

The first question in the Westminster Catechism is "What is the chief end of man?" The answer is "To glorify God and enjoy him forever."  I keep coming back to this catechism question as I think about my blogging.  A couple of months ago I wrote a post, thinking out loud about why I was blogging and whether my motives were right.  I've been convicted that I should write for one Person alone--God. 

My prayer lately has been that when I write a post, He would be glorified.  If only one person in the world reads this blog and they are in some way helped or encouraged and God is glorified, then I have done what he has called me to do.  So each time I write a post, I am challenging myself to write for Him and for His glory.  I've taught my oldest that to glorify God means that when people looks at us they see God in us.  As the moon reflects the light of the sun, so we are to reflect to others who God is through how we live our lives.

And so my words that I type can be used to bring glory to Him.  My title for my blog is "My Life as a Mom" and as I write about what God is doing in my life to refine me to be the mother I am called to be, I can point to God and his work in and through me.  My posts "Teach me Jesus" and "God's still working on me" should be less about me and more about him.  My book reviews, poetry I write and even stories of our family events and adventures should all point back to the one who graciously gives me the hands to write these words.  And instead of holding back a part of myself because of fear of judgment, I can share what God has done in my heart so that others might see the hope that is in Christ.

This year, my resolve is to share more about my experiences with depression and God's unending grace to me through those difficult times.  I resolve that this blog will become less about me and more about Him.  I also resolve to care little for comments on my posts but more that my posts would be glorifying to God.  I echo Jonathan Edwards resolution: "Resolved, never to do any manner of thing, whether in soul or body, less or more, but what tends to the glory of God; nor be, nor suffer it, if I can avoid it."

"For this reason, I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith--that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God."  Eph 3:14-19