My First Blog

I am new to the blogging world and have, for a long time, kind of made fun of the blogging community. The fact is, however, I have stuff I need to let out. Things I need to say and no pulpit to say it in. Therefore, telling everyone why I am starting this blog may make this one of my longer blogs I will write, but here goes:
I don't think I am the only one when I say that many moments in my life have left me feeling trapped. I feel like I know God has so many great things in store for my life and I have either passed on so many opportunities that I'm stuck in a rut now, or I have just neglected my heart's desires to change the world and let my head tell me it can't be done. I have a passion for music, yet I only play my songs with all the feeling and emotion I desire in them when it is just me around; when only I am home. (Well, and my dog Marley) I yearn for an undying passion that is required of me to be a city on a hill, yet I lay motionless. This seems to lead me into sin. Complacency leads to sin. I don't know if that is a side note in Webster's definition of complacency, but it should be. Furthermore, sin on top of sin leads to being complacent in sin; becoming so comfortable allowing "small sins" in our lives that we sin without remorse almost and are no longer uncomfortable allowing sin to thrive in our lives on a daily basis. I would even go as far to say that the degree of separation in the previous few statements is non-existent, meaning complacency not only leads to complacent sin, but pure complacency IS sin. I feel as a people of God, we have neglected to realize that not doing what we know to do for Christ is just as sinful as doing things we deem wrong.
I've been reading in Hosea lately and it has really convicted me, so much that I've been moved to tears. Hosea's first couple chapters are metaphoric for how Israel has betrayed God and become a "whore" to the the marriage Christ desires with his bride: the church. I encourage you to pick up your sword today and read Hosea and let it convict you the way it has me, because I no longer want to be complacent in a world where sin continues to grow and faith is diminishing. I no longer want to be a whore to my King and my Husband in Christ.