585 Comments Later...

A quick and interesting perspective on effectiveness.

In writing these daily prayers, of which I haven't calculated of late, but we're at 740+ consecutive days, some days the ideas take a little longer to develop and process mentally before writing. Other days, I may still have not have much to go, but something super-natural seems to happen, beyond my abilities and the words simply take off as I start typing.

So yesterday morning, while processing mentally, I saw an unrelated idea on the social media fan page of my favorite show. I posted, hey here's an idea and the notifications started going off with everyone commenting on the idea with more suggestions. Pretty soon, I was watching and reading the comments more than developing the post!  Hence, yesterday's post was a little late.

This morning... 585 suggestions in a short 23 hours!!

And while I'd love to figure out how to make that happen here in terms of effectiveness for Bring Me 70, it was also an effective lesson in how quickly we can get distracted on the less important thing being more effective than where our priority should be; let alone the importance of the eternal thing.

Yesterday was fun and the conversation interesting and the engagement of others was awesome to watch. And it wasn't ineffective, as in the midst of all the posts, I commented about being late on this blog and someone asked about Bring Me 70... so who knows how many are reading this now, thanks to the distraction of social media.

Thus, on this #effectiveSunday, will you join me once again? Pray today would be an effective day for the kingdom o fGod. May we be careful in what we allow to distract us and detour us from the efforts and work of ministry; knowing that we may never know, as Scripture describes, what will bring forth fruit and what will fail. Pray for discernment and direction as we move forward in life and faith, one day and one conversation at a time... whether with 1 life, 5 or 585.

Won by One.
For the glory of God.
For the cause of Jesus Christ.

- PNC