Jizazfrik

It has taken quite a while for me to decided what the content of my blogging will be. The only thing I have known for sure is that I have this desire to write; to write something about God, something for God and something with God.

Should I be preachy, should it just be a journal of my day to day experiences, should it be a bible study? Well at the end of it all I have decided to go with the flow, to write whatever is my heart at the moment.

Jizazfrik was inspired a long time ago by the song Jesus Freak by DC Talk which basically set to put some pride into being a christian by embracing a term that was often times used derogatorily. At the time I was fully involved in being a christian. I lived and breathed the word of God and sought to apply it in every aspect of my life. I readily identified with being one. I guess it was easy because all around me i had Christians to support me. I was very active in church, the Christan union and all things church related. All my relation were from the church.

But being the ‘real’ world has seen me go through challenges that indeed at best I had not prepared fore. In the workplace, being a ‘Saved’ christian is being part of a minority. And it can be quite drowning in that you are forced to hang around colleagues that do not share the same perspective as you in so many different subjects. And so you either have to be a lone voice, and therefore have people avoid you at lunch time, or agree with the conversation. This is the greatest challenge that i am having now. How to balance the Christian side of me, be light of Jesus and in the meanwhile maintain relationships with people who are not of the same christian view as I am.

I know that there is a balance to be met. It is my duty as a christian to be a light of the world and a salt of the earth. But I have to be careful not to alienate those whom I try to reach, neither should i dilute the gospel of truth.

To this goal to I start this new journey in Christianity. I want to re-equip myself with the gospel of truth. To remember exactly how it started and to know where I’m headed. To live an exemplary (does not mean perfect) christian life in the ‘real’ world so that I will teach by example what it means to be a ‘real’ christian.

Mat 5:13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under foot of men.