It wasn’t a cry for help when I decided to shut down the old blog. I knew God was preparing me to shut it down a long time ago. The only question was when. The forced shift to the “block editor” was the signal God used to tell me.
Look, it’s not like I can’t learn how to use the “block editor.” It’s very similar to other formats, such as software used to format newspapers and so forth. And this business of “blocks” is the underlying format used in the former K-Office, a part of the KDE Linux interface. It’s not like I don’t understand it. But it’s designed for one sector of the population, and I’m not in that sector. I don’t think like that; I don’t organize and process information that way. It’s morally evil to force it on anyone.
Indeed, it would be very easy to use MS Word. Word has a built-in template just for publishing to WordPress (among a handful of other blogging platforms). And you can install a WordPress plugin to import Word documents, so you can get it from either end. And if that’s not enough, Google Docs has a plugin to publish to WordPress.
This is not a question of how to keep using that blog. It’s a question of when to kill it, since it’s death warrant had already been issued. I had posted that several times already. When it comes up for renewal in August, I won’t pay for it. I’ll remove the whole thing. It will be gone forever, except what was brought over when this blog was opened. That was the plan all along.
Even this blog is expendable. I don’t have a death warrant for it yet, but I’m not so invested in things here that my life will change if I have to wipe this one, too. The time is coming when the Net will go through some major changes, and how the Lord wants me to engage the Net will change, too. Get ready for it, folks. Blogging has a limited shelf life; I don’t know the date yet, but it will expire in terms of its usefulness in my mission.
Right now, we need to think in terms of quality, not quantity. We’ve done the work of trying to get this message to the wider world. The response has been minuscule. That’s okay; the Lord is the only one who can grant us souls. What we need most is not large numbers, but a few people deeply committed. And in a short time, the game will change. How we publish the gospel message is going to become the responsibility of some other folks who will pick it up in due time after the big changes in our world.
The fields aren’t ripe for harvest right now; they aren’t even ready for plowing. There has yet to come the scorched earth to cleanse the land before the plowing. I’m doing my part to prepare the message; I’m sifting everything that has been around for a long time. I’m trying to lay the foundation for a dramatic shift in how people think about the gospel. What God builds on that foundation remains to be seen, and I may not be around when the time comes to build.
This is what’s in my hands. Don’t get lost in what stood before the Lord began to move in His wrath. We are privileged to see changes no one can imagine. Let’s preserve the Word in our hearts for when the storms are past. Don’t miss the point of all of this.
