The Blog of Hobbes

Very few people are capable of writing profound blog posts. Everyone is capable of writing trivia. Consequently, it is wrong to assume that reading blogs will make you wise.

Neither does blogging make you wise. Only diligent, focused study will do so - of the Bible in the first instance, followed by study of good, relevant literature and scholarship. Blogging is merely an outflow of someone’s current understanding and thoughts - whether profound or trivial. Regurgitating these thoughts in a blog does not improve them.

Break the cycle of mediocre blogging: Study, and then blog. If you have any time left over, then read some good blogs.

I enjoy blogging, but it hurts. It hurts because I think so intensely about a particular topic while I write it. Not that this results in particuarly profound thoughts, as both of my readers will testify. But, God keep me from posting flippant, trivial things that litter the Internet. More than that: Keep me from engaging in the reckless and unrestrained exposure of my personal spiritual life to (potentially) the entire world - like some sort of “spiritual pornography”, I guess. That’s not going to happen here.