Lessons for Christian Bloggers
When I started this blog in 2017, it felt like a new and exciting adventure.
While I had to push the start date back a few months due to a family loss, I was nonetheless hopeful of all that God was going to do in and through me.
But things didn’t go as I had expected.
Since then, it has been a process of learning, unlearning, and relearning.
Today, my blogging has become a beautiful and more grounded adventure as I’ve learned to temper my expectations with God’s word and direction.
What about you?
How has your creative journey been?
Learning to let go and let God
Between 2017 and 2020, I expected a certain level of growth and felt a bit disengaged when I didn’t experience it.
Thankfully, God in his infinite wisdom and loving kindness taught me some indescribable and life-changing lessons related to my blog. These were hard to hear but were certain things I needed to know and inculcate.
I don’t know where you are in your creative journey.
Perhaps you just started a blog, a writing project, a Youtube channel or even a podcast, and you’re trying to figure out the best way to build your brand and make an impact.
I pray this post helps you refocus your mind on what really matters while also encouraging you to keep going.
Without further ado, here are seven lessons God taught me about my platform (blog) from 2017 to 2020:
About metrics and numbers:
- Don’t get carried away with numbers. Quality will always trump quantity.
- Be faithful in little things. You ask for more readers, followers, and a bigger platform. But have you done well with those you have?
- With more blessings comes more responsibility. Don’t just crave the wider audience or work; be ready for the increased responsibility. Leadership is not a title but a service.
About our message
- Never hide from the truth. Speak it! Live it. Don’t sugar-coat it or water it down to be accepted or liked. That’s not what matters.
- It is not because we speak the truth that we are often not liked or known; it’s often because of our attitude and manner. Arrogance and a lack of empathy cannot make you friends.
- Hard work and consistency are key ingredients to success and excellence. These also speak to your integrity. Be flexible enough to know when you need to pivot and when you need to be silent.
On the use of social media
- I think one of the biggest lessons was on social media. He told me:
“It’s more important to listen to what I have to say than to seek to run your blog like others.” “I never told you to go on Instagram.”
“You did that because you felt it was what you were supposed to do.”
“Don’t fall into the trap of following the crowd. Let me lead you.”
Conclusion
That’s it: seven essential lessons for building anything God-breathed. While my instructions regarding number 7 have changed in recent times, most of the others remain.
My experience has taught me that we should follow God’s guidance in all we do, including the things we do for him.
Here are some scriptural reminders to encourage and inspire you:
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”
Ephesians 2:10
For it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.”
Philippians 2:13
However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.”
John 16:13
For the Lord will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.”
Isaiah 58:11
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.”
2 Tim 1:7
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