Spammers Ahoy! Who Me?

Wow – Perhaps I should be excited. My blog is visible; at least the spammers have found it. Encountered my first spammed comments today and got 5 of them at once. That’s not cool, but if it in any way indicates growth on the part of my blog, I’ll deal with it Have you ever wondered what it must be like to live with yourself when you can’t let others see who you really are; when you have to hide behind garbled URL’s and other anonymous identities? It must be awful to be too ashamed to just be who you really are. Miserable because when we hide like that it’s because we know we aren’t who ought to be or even want to be, so why do we do it? Notice how I’m becoming more personal the longer I write. It is easy to lash out at others when they perform less than admirably, but if we’re really honest who of us hasn’t lived behind a mask of one kind or another? We want to be accepted, loved, and admired so we put on some personality, force some giggles here and there, or perhaps we drive ourselves tirelessly to prove we can make the cut and hide the emptiness and hurt inside. Ahhh… but deep inside we long for rest; a rest or peace that has nothing to do with location or circumstance. Like a camel fresh off it’s trek across some vast desert we are thirsty for that rest. My friends the good news is, it’s available! If only we will deal honestly with God and ourselves, facing the masks in the mirror and exposing them for what they are in confession and humility and then… Simply waiting on Him! Jesus promised to send the Holy Spirit, The Comforter to those who come to Him in repentance by faith and essentially wait on Him. Here are a few passages that perhaps may speak to the unrest in your soul today.

“Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.” (Isaiah 40:28-31 ESV)

““Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food. Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David.” (Isaiah 55:1-3 ESV)