I logged onto my weblog site this morning to check out if I got any comments or to see if any inspiration would strike me.  No real inspiration struck me but yet I found myself clicking on my "Create a post" link.  It’s strange.  Ever since I started this website I have been somewhat obsessed with checking my site and writing things.  It is almost like I have this huge audience out there just chumping at the bit for me to post something so I had better hurry up and write something.  Wow…what an ego I have.  I am amazed that my head even fits in my tiny office here at church.  But the reality of the matter is that I have no clue how many of you are out there.  I have no idea if anyone will ever read this.  Maybe weeks or months down the road when people get used to the fact that I do this type of thing, someone will read this, but who knows.  Maybe people out there have read this and stopped, saying, "This guy is clueless and I am not going to waste my time on him".  Then I ask myself from time to time "Why are you even doing this?  You are not a good writer."  I hate it when I ask myself questions that I don’t like to hear.  But I continue to ask myself, "Why are you even a pastor?  You have no clue what you are doing."  Once again, I would be right.  I hate it when I am right.  Well, after this series of questions I have to yell at myself to stop.  Don’t worry, I am not hearing voices; I am not crazy or schizophrenic, I am just trying to make a point.  And maybe that is all anyone of us can do, is try to make a point.  Maybe we are not as talented, as eloquent a speaker or writer like the next person.  We don’t all have the same gifts and thank God for that otherwise this would be a boring world.  But the one thing we all can do is make a point.  In what ever way you do that, God will bless it.  Don’t make a point in order to gain fame and popularity, but make a point to the glory of God.  It is not a glorious venture.  People probably will not praise you for it.  And there will not be a trophy on your mantle.  All we can do is be ourselves and use the gifts that God has given us.  God has not given me the gift of writing so it seems weird that I am even doing something like this.  But then I say to myself (here we go again), "Your gift my not be writing, but rather being obsessed enough to keep doing this."  What ever your gift is use it to make a point in the world.  Not everyone will read this post, but if one person does and is transformed or given a lift by it, then I have done the job God has called me to do.  If the Holy Spirit makes only one connection to someone throuh a sermon I preach then I have done my job.  I am not a good writer, but when the Holy Spirit gets a hold of me, watch out.  Go am make a point in the world and forget about numbers.  Forget about trying to change the world.  Change the world one person at a time.  Let the Holy Spirit do the hard work.  Have I made my point?  Praise be to God and Amen!