Today my blog turns 10 years old. I cannot believe it has been a decade since I started this blog. I didn’t think too much about it but the Lord seemed to be saying it is a significant milestone. I cannot say I have been very prolific in blogging for the past few years but at least I did share when prompted. The reason why it is a significant milestone is because God is pleased with my faithfulness in stepping out with this writing ministry.
Honestly I feel that there can be so much more I can do in this writing ministry but somehow I got distracted by many things happening in my life along the way. But that is not what the Lord looks at. He is looking at my consistency. My willingness to write and post articles during those tough seasons of my life when He was preparing and training me up. In the natural I totally did not feel like writing anything. I just wanted to withdraw into my own shell.
Yet when I look back now, those years of preparation are totally necessary. And the Lord seems to be saying that things are not going to be the same old same old from this day onwards. He told me earlier that I have passed the test, I have finished the race and fought the good fight of faith. I continued to press on and do His work even when the going got tough. All these served to build up my spiritual mettle.
Where the Lord is taking me to in this blog or ministry in the next 5 or 10 years, I am still not very sure. All I know is that wherever He brings me to in the future or even in the days ahead will totally astound me. I would not have expected it in my wildest imaginations. It can only be the hand of God. In fact, even as I reflected on the past decade of my blog, I am amazed at the amount of things I wrote.
But right now I don’t wish to think so far. I just want to take the moment to celebrate my blog’s tenth birthday. This blog is also like my baby that I birthed ten years ago. What a journey it had been! Only the Lord knows! The fact that I am still blogging today is testament to His grace for many times I wanted to give up writing. Now I see that the Lord has built up a depository of His words through my blog.
In closing, I just wanted to echo the words of a post that I had taken out from Elijah List, written by Deborah Waldron. I took it as the very words of my Lord to me.
Beloved. Well done, My good and faithful servant. You are My Chosen, My Elite Warrior raised up for such a time as this. Many gave up along the way, but you did not give up. You did not lose your faith in Your Commander but you obeyed. You obeyed without asking why. You obeyed with tears in your eyes and pain in your heart. Still, you trusted.
Even faced with death, you marched on. You have walked by the Spirit and not the flesh. To you are given the most difficult missions. You have been an example to others for they see your faith even in the midst of dire circumstances. They marvel that you keep using your supernatural weapons of warfare. Even when you don't see the miracle, you fight on, knowing that faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
I have set you before men. I know you have some battle scars. But here is what makes you Elite. You kept going. You kept believing. You kept praising and worshiping. You are the Special Forces of the Spirit. I have a crown waiting for you, My Child. It is the Crown of the Overcomer. Fear not what may come against you. Your Commander is with you.
I have to thank a sister who baked a cake for me when she came to my place in the evening, just in time for the celebration of my blog’s tenth birthday. I felt so loved by her kind action and also touched by God’s love for me. Here’s the lovely cake. God is so good to me.
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