A pet peeve

April 20, 2009 in Theology with 4 Comments

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?

 

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  • jmt

    I get annoyed reading posts that ramble on and on…my own blog would annoy me if I weren’t the co-author.

  • Alan P.

    Ben,

    Great post. You nailed one of my pet peeves too and turned it into a powerful illustration.

    Alan

  • Mary

    Great post. Thank you for sharing. One of my pet peeves is being late. If someone tells me a time something starts I have to be there early or on time. I absolutely hate it when one of my family members I have to drive to the same place I’m going try to be late to annoy me.

  • Ashley Watkins

    Working with children, I see my biggest pet peeve A LOT. It really annoys me when someone is worried or caught up in other people’s problems or mistakes and yet they don’t seem to notice their own. The kids in my pre-kindergarten class are constantly tattling on other children when they were doing the same thing like 5 minutes before! This kind of thing happens a lot with adults too!