He Uses the Foolish-- Even Me!

It seems somehow appropriate that our one-year anniversary for this blog coincides with April Fool's Day. I've always embraced computer technology and the Internet and was receiving training in HTML programming probably before you even had heard there was such a thing, so it came as a complete surprise to me some years ago when I read an article in the New York Times about blogging.

I actually thought the copy editor had missed a glaring error and that the article was supposed to be about the "logging" industry. As I read, however, I discovered that "blog" was indeed a word that had nothing to do with harvesting trees. A whole communication world that I never had heard of existed somewhere on the Internet. It was sort of like waking up one morning to discover that the United States had added a 51st state a while ago, but I'd somehow failed to hear about it. I felt rather foolish.

Last year blogging became a natural progression of Masterworks' ministry to Christians in the performing arts. We spend a lot of time answering questions, providing resources and training and mentoring those who use their talents in music, drama and performance arts to serve the Lord in the regular course of our ministry. Our blog is just a weekly extension of that. It is read by people from all around the United States (we've had visitors from almost all of the 51, er, 50 states) and the world and it has been a great way to network.

We're committed to serving Him through every means possible so that everyone may Hear His message of hope and salvation. It's OK to feel foolish because we don't know everything, whether it comes to blogs or to the perfect answers to questions people might have about our faith or the bible. Christ is able to use us in our foolishness and weakness and provides the knowledge and wisdom we need to complete His work. This must be true, or today, instead of reading this blog from me, you'd be learning about how to harvest tress...

For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength. (1Cor. 1:25 NIV)