daily java

Daily Java:

Now go and write down these words. (Isaiah 30:8)

I have been writing these articles for about three years now, both for this bulletin and for my blog online. I also usually put this article into the blog. I know that the blog readers, both of them, are dying to read it and it also saves me from having to write another article.

Here lately, I have also been putting some articles on Facebook on my page, so when it comes down to it, many of my bulletin articles do triple duty. More bang for the buck.

This article makes 1300 posts in my blog. That means that I have put 1300 articles online. The total wordage (is that a word?) as of the last blog post comes to 597,737 words.

In the past three or so years I have written almost 600,000 words. At about 500 words per bulletin article and an average of 500 to 900 words per article in general, that comes to a lot of writing. That is six books.

Someone asked me why I felt compelled to write so much and I had no answer. I have always written, both for newspapers and magazines, multitudes of bulletin articles in my nearly forty years of ministry, other stuff. In high school, the one thing I always got good grades on was music and English. I could always sing and I could always write.

My voice has decayed a considerable amount now, but I still can write. And the advent of the blog made it easier to write and saves the writing for others to read. In case you don’t know, blog is a word that is short for web log, or online journal. It was shortened from web log to just blog. People have blogs for everything from fish to nuts, religion to pornography, travel to collections of thimbles.

Every blog post I have made has begun with a scripture. That limits my audience but I don’t care. I have always found one that fits even if I have to take it a little out of context, like I did today. The rest of Isaiah 3:8-9 reads:

Write them in a book. They will stand until the end of time as a witness that these people are stubborn rebels who refuse to pay attention to the Lord’s instructions.

I don’t think most of you are stubborn rebels so that didn’t really fit. But one verse which does is Ecclesiastes 12:12:

Be careful, for writing books is endless, and much study wears you out. 

I have written at all conceivable hours from just getting up to late at night, 3:00 in the morning, when ill or angry, during fasts, just a whole bunch of stuff.

And I have always appreciated your comments about the bulletin article and am grateful you read it. It gives my offering of verbiage meaning when you know someone reads it and likes it.

This makes 1300 posts and 500 words right now. (God bless you – this is eleven more, but I don’t care.)