Stop Reading This Blog
Mark Dever at Together For the Gospel Blog makes an excellent point
which has moved me to write this post, get off the internet and out of
the blogosphere, open up
Libronix, and start reading old dead guys instead:
One
reason that I've been reluctant to enter the blogosphere is that I am
concerned that blog-writing and reading only adds to a bad tendency
that we today already have--a fascination with the newest, latest, and
most recent. And the newest and latest also often means that which is
of only immediate value, that which is passing. That is opposed to
that which is enduring, and which has in fact endured and lasted. We
write words here which crawl along electronically and leap out through
your fingers and eyes to take precious minutes and hours that the Lord
has entrusted to us...I am
concerned that we not neglect reading more important things. Even
beyond the Bible, there are 2,000 years of Christian reflections in
print before we get to blogs...So be
sure and set aside some time to read more substantial things. Commune
with the saints that have gone before. Give some time to reading
Anselm and Turretin, Samuel Rutherford's Letters or John Bunyan's Grace
Abounding to the Chief of Sinners. And if you still have some time,
you can have some other food for your soul--side dishes--snacks--by
reading this blog.
I think that I can way to easily get caught up in the controversies and
light thinking of the day, jumping from blog to blog, newstory to
newstory, at the expense of many other things which I should be
reading. So on that note, I sign off and am about to prayerfully
snuggle up with some
Spurgeon.
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