What have I learned in my first two years blogging?

Hey everyone! So today, I’m going to share with you all the things that I have learned in my first two years blogging. 

Before we get started, let’s have our moment of silence. 

At this time, I would like all of us to take a moment of silence and pray to God to help us to become the person that he wants us to become. Ask God to guide us throughout all of our rough times and to bless our hands with work. Take a minimum of 5 minutes and pray for this. 

Now back to the show

What have I learned in my first two years blogging?

I have learned so much with my first two years blogging. I have learned skills, wisdom, strength, endurance, humility, and I have learned more about God.

Let’s talk about these. 

I have learned skills

Internet marketing is almost like a trade on it’s own. You can do freelance work for other bloggers and have them pay you for your work. 

You can also basically start your own, “business” so that you can do it all on your own. 

And ultimately, it really depends on how well you make the content, how much hard work you’re willing to put in, and also how patient you are willing to be with yourself. 

All of those things can be acquired through God though. 

But I’ll save that topic for last!

Anyways, I have learned how to write in an effective manner. 

I didn’t tell you guys this, but when I was in college, I had to write essays for my college classes. However, I had already been blogging consecutively for a few months, so I was fresh off the momentum. 

Anyways, the first essay that I was assigned, I got a 98%.

That’s incredible! 

I got a 98% in my first essay straight back from not studying however writing?!?!? I’ll take that win any day! 

So right now, I know that I have writing skills.

The Lord has blessed me with skills! 

The Lord has blessed me with wisdom!

When I was a kid, and ultimately even as a young adult, I thought that money comes easily.

I thought that it didn’t take much to work hard at something and get something good out of it. 

However, I now see that it actually takes a lot of work and strength to do good things. 

In a way, it was a humbling experience going through job after job and not getting much out of it. 

However, now armed with this new wisdom that the Lord has given me, I can now apply it to my own life from here on out! 

Now I know what you’re thinking, “But German, you had a lot of wasted time, aren’t you scared that you’ll never get that time back.”

No not really because of a few reasons.

Reason number 1, if God wanted me to be rich by this age, I would have been rich by this age. 

So that doesn’t concern me too much because this is God’s plan not mine. 

Trust in the fact that if something major was supposed to happen in my life by this time, it would have happened. Trust in that! 

The Lord knows what I want and he actually has given how to achieve your dreams in the bible! 

However, it was ME who was ignorant and sinful and didn’t pay attention to him when I had the chance to obtain my money. It wasn’t God who did that, it was me. I should have listened to my parents and my teachers.

However, there’s more wisdom in the bible.

The bible also basically says to not cry over spilled milk. 

Now, I know that I have sinned before God, however, everyone does that! 

And it doesn’t matter what you have done in life because God is going to fix it if you want him to. 

And right now, I want him to fix everything that is in my life. 

So, now is the time to forget about the past and just focus on the future. The Lord has a big bright future ahead of me. 

I’m not going to lie, sometimes I am scared of the future that God has for me. 

However, I know better than to doubt God. 

So there’s wisdom!

I have learned strength

Honestly, if it wasn’t for God, I wouldn’t have strength. 

I remember back before I was fully committed to God, that I was just floating through life. Not really in a particular direction. However, for some reason, everything just clicked and it made sense that God is real and that God’s way is the right way. 

And before I saw that, I really didn’t have strength to do anything but to have pleasure. 

I just wanted pleasure before I knew God.

However, when God opened my eyes, he showed me that, that was not the correct way to live. 

God showed me that the correct way to live is not easy and is not comfortable and isn’t always pleasurable. 

And to be honest, I saw in my eyes that, that was good. 

I saw the lesson that God had taught me was good. 

It wasn’t just wisdom that I thought of. It was wisdom that I read in the bible. I’m not going to lie, it took me years to figure it out on my own, however, I read it in the bible last year. It stated in the bible, “the poor man hands seek nothing but pleasure.” 

So, it’s not a matter of what you want to do, it’s a matter of what you need to do. 

Therefore, we can’t be scared to get a little uncomfortable in life because God is the one who blesses the hard worker. 

I have learned endurance

I remember when I first started this blog, I knew it was going to take a lot of time to complete it, however, I wasn’t sure just how long it would take.

So, I’m not going to lie, I prayed to God to give me strength to endure throughout all of these years so that I could build something good. 

Because ultimately this is something good that God wants to give me.

And again, we can go back to the original idea, if God didn’t want something to happen, it wouldn’t have happened. 

So, I have been blogging for almost two years. 

Non consecutive of course. 

Consecutive I would say nearly a year. I know I took two breaks this year, but other than that, I was golden. 

So like, I know that I’ve been putting in the work, now the rest is up to God. 

I think that I’ve done my part in life.

Now, it’s up to God to decide on what he wants to do with my blog. 

I would really like to keep this blog for the rest of my life because I really want to make it my job. 

However, God could have other plans. 

Who knows. 

Either way, I’m still going to pray for this blog and I’m still going to work hard in it, just the way that God wants it to be. 

I have learned humility

To me, humility comes in many shapes and sizes. 

I have learned that humility does mean humbling yourself before God, and really that is humility. 

However, acknowledging that you can’t do anything without him is a whole new level of humility.

I know that we say that we can’t do anything without God, but what does that really mean?

Can we walk our dogs without God? No as a matter of fact we can’t because there could be a maniac loose on the streets looking to kill someone for the fun of it! And don’t pretend like this stuff doesn’t happen. 

Can we eat without God? No we can’t because God provides our food! If we don’t have God providing our food, we can’t eat!

Can we get dressed? Can we watch T.V.? Can we learn a new skill? Can we have a good life? Can we breath?!??! 

The answer to all of those questions is we need God to be able to do those things. 

I know that, that sounds a little absurd to do.

Of course you don’t have to pray to God for absolutely everything, I mean like I would pray every time I wake up, each meal, and when I go to sleep, that’s how I would do it. 

However, God doesn’t need you to or want you to pray, “ God should I eat eggs this morning or pancakes?” or how about, “God should I wear blue today? Or red?” or my personal favorite, “God should I pick the blueberries or not?!?!” 

Like that’s not how God wants you to be either. 

God doesn’t want you to be a robot either, he wants you to be free.

However, I know that there are some prayers that these people would say that it’s okay to pray for. Say for example in the examples above, you could say, “God, I don’t know what to eat for breakfast, you know that my weight is terrible and if I gain any more weight I’ll be severely obese! I want to eat healthy but help me to eat healthy!” 

Or maybe, “God I’m in a gang area and I want to be free to wear whatever clothes I want. I walk on these streets but I don’t want to wear any color because someone might get the wrong impression of me. Lord, keep me safe and help me to decide on what to wear.” 

Another example would be, “God, I just ate some berries from the woods and I don’t know if they were poisonous or not. I don’t have insurance and I would really like it if you healed me. If not Lord please provide a way for me to be in the hospital. Thank you.”

Or, it doesn’t have to be that way either. I know that all of those people in those examples sounded like they were in distress. However, it can be positive too. 

Example, 

Lord, “everyone makes fun of me and my clothes that I wear. I’m bullied all the time and I feel suicidal, Lord I know that you reign supreme in my heart, I know that you are good, Lord I know that you will be with me no matter what, Lord can you please help me to find good clothes so that people won’t bully me?”

That prayer I actually did back when I was in high school and sure enough that summer, we went shopping for back to school clothes and for some reason, I picked out some pretty cool clothes. 

I honestly don’t know what got into me, but when I went into school, I had just got a really nice haircut, I had shaved for the first time, and I had on some white Jordans with a blue flannel and khaki pants. And I’m not going to lie, one of my friends was like, “German you’re hot!” 

A few girls noticed me and said, “German that looks really good on you.”

I’m telling you it was God.

So like, humility comes in many ways! However, God loves a humble heart and he will reward you for your humility.

And of course, I have learned more about God

I have learned some things about God that I did not know before. 

I have learned that a relationship with God has to be kept up.

We have to be in constant communication with the Lord for our sake, not his. 

I have learned that reading the bible is the difference between life and death. 

I have learned that everything that God has ever said was true and that I really can’t trust anyone, including myself. 

And above all, I have learned to trust in God.

Broadcast

I sure hope that I have been an inspiration and a hope to you all. Please remember to pray, read your bible, go to church, and love God above all else. Like, comment, share, subscribe, and I will see you all next time.

If you want to go to heaven, then believe in Jesus and you will go to heaven. (John 3:16)

Thank you all for listening in on this blog post. 

German Gonzalez, signing out!