They say a picture is worth a 1000 words. With that said, I wonder what a 1000 blog posts are worth? In case you haven’t caught on by now, this is blog number 1000 posted on WordPress for me. I posted some on a previous web server, but I can’t remember how many.
It has taken ten years to reach this point. I started out blogging once a week, but about six years ago, I increased it to two a week. With God’s help, in those ten years, I have only missed two deadlines. I would have missed three, but that night the Holy Spirit kept prompting me to write a blog and post it. I did, and I found out thirty-five minutes later that it changed a woman’s life. I have never missed one since.
At the time of this writing, this blog has been read in 165 different countries. I am humbled by that number. Again, only with God’s help. When I was a child, I heard about the Great Commission. Take the Gospel to the world. Being a rather normal kid in Oklahoma, I had no idea how I could fulfill that commission, but God did. He knew about the Internet before Al Gore allegedly invented it.
But numbers don’t measure success. When it comes to building the kingdom of God, it comes down to how many lives have been influenced or changed because of the message one has read or heard.
Speaking of numbers, I have observed that the more successful blog sites are written by some of the most narcissistic individuals I have ever seen. They will write about something that has nothing to do with God, and they might receive hundreds of likes. Sometimes, I’m fortunate to get one or two. And I’m okay with that because again, I have no idea the impact the words God gives me to write have, but I do know that “his” words do not return to him void, empty. (Isa. 55:11)
I also know that one lady, I used to work with, shared with me that she started going back to church after reading this blog site for a while. Another lady told me she was going to quit her job because she had made two minor mistakes, and she started listening to the devil, who was lying to her that she was worthless and didn’t know what she was doing. That she wasn’t worthy of doing her job. One blog she read that night encouraged her not to quit and to stop listening to the devil.
Changed lives. That is success. And how many other stories are there that I don’t even know about yet this side of heaven?
So, again, I am humbled that God asked me to do something I enjoy, help Him encourage people, or love on His people. I will continue to write as long as these fingers type.
With that said, I appreciate every reader. Thank you for the likes because they do something in us writers that is encouraging. I also am thankful for those who take the time to write a comment. There is one reader, from Kansas, I believe, who informed me that he got busy with life and had to delete a lot of his emails. But he went on to say that he never deleted my blogs. My heart was touched. He is currently about nine months behind, so he won’t see this until next year. LOL. But “Thank you” for all your encouragement and kind words. I appreciate you so much. You know who you are.
This is starting to sound like an Oscar acceptance speech! Thank you to April, who is so generous in giving me time to write. I would also like to thank my very special friend, Steve. If it weren’t for him and his initial encouragement, “not to worry about what people thought of my writing,” this blog may have never started. Thank you, Steve! You mean a lot to me. And never stop asking me questions, like you did, “What’s stopping you from writing?”
With that, I will end. So, “Happy 1000 Blog!” May God continue to use you to encourage people to grow in their relationship with you.
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