I don’t have a ton of pet peeves, but here’s one. If you start your blog with, “It’s been so long since the last time I blogged…I’ve been so busy…” then don’t expect me to read it. I don’t care why you haven’t blogged. If it’s important enough to you to blog, you’ll do it. If it’s not, you won’t. No hard feelings…just don’t start out your blog apologizing that you haven’t blogged in a while. You’re blogging now…get on with it!

I wonder if God says something similar to us? “Sorry that I haven’t prayed as much…sorry I’ve let some area of my life slip…sorry I haven’t been going to church as much as I should…sorry I haven’t been reading my Bible…sorry I …” It’s true that God does care about the past, and about our past failures. But He’s working on redemption, which also has a present and future aspect to it. He’s not negating the past, but is saying, “Get going with things now!”

Don’t get so stuck in your apologies to God that you forget to crank the key, start the engine, and hit the gas. Jesus wasn’t content with us just acknowledging our sin…he urges us to go! (John 8:11)

What are some of your pet peeves?