About “Beggars and Bread”
FROM ONE BEGGAR TO ANOTHER…
Well, maybe my including you as a “beggar” may not seem a friendly thing to say—and certainly no insult is intended. But if I understand my Bible correctly, we are all in the same fix—all sinners in need of saving.
Maybe it’s because I’m old enough to sense more than ever my mortality. Maybe it’s because my focus is increasingly less on what this life and this world can offer, than on the endless life to come. But more than ever, I’m experiencing a greater hunger for knowing God, for understanding who He is (His character), for personally experiencing His love, and for making the pursuit of God truly my highest priority in whatever time remains to me.
So I’m beginning this blog as simply one of 6.8 billion beggars on this planet we call home. I have a master’s in divinity, but I certainly do not consider myself a “theologian,” except in the personal, rather than professional, sense. I do not claim to know everything about God with perfect certainty. But through my lifetime, I’ve studied and searched and pondered—and reached certain conclusions that appeal to my spirit and reason.
I believe in the existence of God. I believe in the Bible as His voice speaking to me. I believe in the reality of the great struggle between Christ and Satan. I believe in the hereafter—in Heaven and the New Earth.
To “believe” in these things does not imply that I have absolute proof—only evidences that recommend themselves to my reason and spirit. Belief—or faith—is a choice I make that bridges the gap between the weight of evidence—and complete proof. Does that mean that if I have faith, I have no doubt? Not at all.
But my deep personal desire is to do all I can to feed my faith instead of feeding my doubt. Whatever I feed will grow. Hence my desire to spend as much time as I can find in this busy life to spend with both the Word and the kinds of books in “My Reading List” on the link above.
Whether any others in the blogosphere will find this site—or care to read it if they do—it’s a place where I can set down my own thoughts as well as my own experience in pursuing God and a knowledge of Him.
I’m just one beggar of billions—but whatever pieces of bread I’ve found, or will—I want, from time to time, to share here. Others have left their own trails of breadcrumbs which I’ve followed and found myself closer to God as a result. I hope that can be true of my sharing here, as well. And I would so enjoy hearing from you about your own search for—and walk with—God. What bread can you share with me?
