Abandoned

I have thought about starting a real blog site for awhile but haven't for various reasons. Facebook is nice because I can tag people and practically force them to read whatever random and estranged thoughts I may have had at the time. To start a blog would mean that I have something I write about that someone at some point may want to read. Those profound progressions of thought applied to 1's and 0's (what would have been paper and ink a few years ago.) are far and few between for me, but for whatever reason people seem to read what I write. This isn't going to be a site that I update daily weekly, or any set amount of time with regularity. I write much like I live, spontaneous and free. Full of thought that sometimes leads to conclusions but many times just leads to more thoughts. (Disclaimer: English was never a strong suit of mine. I may have bad grammar, spelling, and dropped words. Believe me, it's not because I don't try so give me a break.)

First of all: Why the name? I don't really fully know. I guess it sounded kinda of cool was the first thought and at the time of thinking of names abandoned that is how I felt. It seems fitting that the name of my site would be as spontaneous as the rest of me and yet still have thought and meaning behind it. Abandoned is what I was, what I do and who I am. I bought a ring almost 2 years ago and I wear it pretty much everywhere I go. It is made out of titanium one of the hardest metals know to man. If I'm in an accident and something happens to my hand to make it swell the hospital will most likely have to cut off my finger to get the ring off because many hospitals do not have the equipment to cut it off. Inscribed into the inside of the ring is Gal 2:20. If I had to do it over again I would have put 20-21 but the idea is still the same.

“I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.” (ESV)

I have abandoned who I once was. It is on longer I but Christ that lives in me. I know longer have to struggle with who I was because who I was is dead and yet Christ lives. Although I still live in the flesh (as our spirits were created to live, but cursed by sin) I live abandoned to faith in Christ the Son of God. I have abandoned the law because righteousness can only be found in Christ. At no point do I look to the law for salvation or redemption. I can never become more righteous by what I do, because I already am everything I need to be or can be.

One of the reasons I bought the titanium ring is because I do a lot of stuff and knew I would be hard on anything that is constantly around me. (yes, that had a double meaning for those wondering. I tend to do that.) I needed something that would hold up, that wouldn't break and wouldn't be marred easily. Even then I have still scratched and nicked it in a few small places. But I know that it will hold up and not fail. What better place to inscribe the defining of my faith than on that which will not fail?

I have abandoned, I do abandon, I am abandoned.

I hope you enjoy the site and that by reading it you are challenged to think.